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Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:30pm Massey Hall Tickets: $39.50 -$59.50

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How to feed your mind Lectures, classes and more I resolve... To save more cats Where to nurture your body Yoga, gyms and beyond Ways to soothe your spirit A survey of spiritual alternatives

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8 City oracle Ford’s future for 2012 10 Global crisis Make it work for the 99 per cent 12 Ecoholic New year’s green trends

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23 DAILY EVENTS 26 FOOD &DRINK 26 Food forecast Foodie 24 LIFE&STYLE predictions for the new year

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Style forecast Trends, styles and designers to watch in 2012 Astrology

Recently reviewed Brunch spots open on New Year’s Day 27 Drink up!

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Bring some crisp apple strudel to TIFF Bell Lightbox’s screening of the musical, hosted by Shawn Hitchens. Noon and 7 pm. $15-$18.75. tiff.net.

The STory Theatre Columbus’s unconventional walkabout telling of the Nativity story closes today. Evergreen Brick Works.

7:30 pm. $10-$25. 416-5047529, theatrecolumbus.ca. hair Tony Award-winning revival of the iconic counterculture musical continues at the Royal Alex to Dec 31. 8 pm. $35-$130. 416-872-1212.

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1984 all-ages classic screens at TIFF Bell Lightbox. 2 pm $9.50$12. 416-599-TIFF. david hockney Last chance to see the Brit artist’s exhilarating iPhone/iPad paintings at the ROM. Fulfill your resolution to take in more art! $13.50-$15. 416-586-8000. bed & breakFaST This all-ages puppet-filled adaptation of The Princess And The Pea story closes today at the Tarragon Extra Space. 2 pm. $20-$25.

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Day musical plays at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. 2 and 7 pm. To Jan 15. $62-$180.

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Alt-country heroes the Sadies play the Horseshoe New Year’s Eve.

The Nutcracker ballet closes, Jan 3

Catch the progressive metal act at the ACC. 3 and 8 pm. $29-$63.50. TM. parFuMerie Adam Pettle and Brenda Robins’s charming adaptation of Miklós Laszló’s classic romantic comedy continues at the Young Centre until Dec 31. 1:30 and 7:30 pm. $28-$65. 416-866-8666.

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theque’s program of the nation’s best films continues with screenings of Monsieur Lazhar (4 pm), Keyhole (7 pm) and Edwin Boyd (9:30 pm).

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per (and Eminem collaborator) plays Sound Academy. 8 pm. $20. TM. blue dragon Robert Lepage’s latest spectacle about an expat Canadian living in Shanghai previews (and opens Jan 11) at the Royal Alex. To Feb 19. 8 pm. $25-$99. 416-8721212.

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Think of this as a chance to lobby councillors on the budget. 2 pm. Free. City Hall Rotunda. toronto.ca.

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email letters@now toronto.com CSIS mole speaks

regarding your year in review issue (NOW, December 22-28). Please note CSIS’s listing me on the U.S. terror watch list was an error that’s been corrected by CSIS and their counterparts in the FBI. I travelled to a counter-extremism summit hosted by Google Ideas in Dublin, Ireland, in June, a mere two weeks after the initial listing story came out, flying over the UK and entering Ireland without any issues whatsoever, as those countries are well aware the listing was a mistake.

No, Canada’s spy agency did not “miss anything when they recruited this guy,” as the news item suggested.

Mubin Shaikh Toronto

From three Ns to Wvrst

i understand that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it seems odd that after a positive review we would be pointed out as the “wurst” in Toronto in Steven Davey’s Top 10 Restaurants for 2011 (NOW, December 22-28). It just doesn’t make for good reporting, or even a consistent

opinion.

In June, Davey reviewed Wvrst and gave us three Ns. In fact I believe one of his quotes was “it’s the King West cantina’s game sausages that put Wvrst above the rest.” One of your readers wrote a letter to the editor saying Davey’s review didn’t do us justice. All quite flattering.

I am now, have been and will continue to be a fan and regular reader of NOW Magazine. You do good work, and when choosing a new restaurant to try, my wife and I often consult your pages first, but after reading this review I find myself feeling a little let down.

Bram Zimmerman general manager, Wvrst Restaurant

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Focusing on the diesel-versuselectric debate is wrongheaded. Each of these trains will have tiny engines compared to the GO train monsters, closer to the scale of two bus engines per carriage.

Mark Dowling Toronto

Man up, web guy

i’m a bit confused by joshua errett’s position on World Star Hip Hop (NOW, December 15-21). He seems to neither condone nor condemn this vulgar and appalling website.

I understand that as a journalist, a certain amount of impartiality is required. But I would prefer that he’d take a stance, even an incorrect one, rather than none at all.

Asking the reader to “take a good look into [the mirror]” isn’t quite strong enough for my sensibilities. A more proactive stance to dealing with issues like public violence in the name of entertainment is required.

Any decent human being has enough of a moral compass to recognize the fact that these pathetic acts of violence and self-degradation are chilling and shameful.

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when the pearson airport rail link project was private (NOW Daily, December 21), the complete cost of the line, stations and vehicles was $300 million. Charging $14 per rider would have made a profit in 20 years.

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the budget committee doesn’t seem to mind upping TTC fares 10 cents per ride (NOW, December 1521).

Why don’t they place a 10-cent toll on drivers and passengers in automobiles? That would help pay for the upkeep of roads.

Oh, wait! Why not charge drivers and their passengers a fixed increase per month, like they will for a Metropass? A nominal $5 per month becomes $60 per year.

Just don’t call it a vehicle registration tax. How about a “fair” increase?

Tom Smarda Toronto

Rubbing out bike safety

it’s truly despicable that the city painted over the long-overdue makeshift safety measures for cycling where biker Jenna Morrison was killed (NOW, December 15-21). This is suggested bike route, and a decade ago, using blue for extra safety was lauded in our 2001 Bike Plan as “innovative.” Despite a budget bigger than those of some countries, this city continues to staunchly maintain, with much police presence, a deadly status quo.

If no charges actually deserved to be laid against the driver involved in Morrison’s death, then police should charge someone at the city. There’s a real whiff of negligence in how safety at this intersection hasn’t been given enough attention.

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Locking out logic herr ford is banking on a scrap with the city’s outside and inside workers’ unions to boost his sagging political fortunes in 2012. His administration has been busy for weeks laying the groundwork for a lockout early in the new year.

But forcing a work stoppage is an iffy proposition. The unions have nothing to lose, since the mayor has made no secret of his intention to chop some 7,000 jobs. They’ll go into this fight with that in mind.

If voters were pissed off about hauling their garbage to depots in mid-summer in 2009, they may be angrier about lugging it to the dump in the dead of winter.

Garbage in, garbage out the mayor’s pledge to privatize garbage pickup for 165,000 households west of Yonge to the Humber

there’s a conundrum for ford on the transit file, too. Transit City may be finished, but the question has never been put to a vote of council.

And the memo of understanding between Ford and the province says it must be in order for Ford’s deal with

Actually, the mayor may be right about that one. In fact, the bill to bury Transit City could end up being as high as $130 million, according to another estimate.

Mushy is as mushy does the ford nation notion isn’t completely defunct. Those in the mushy middlehave shown little inclination to balk at the austerity agenda despite heat from the Libs at Queen’s Park. I didn’t notice many council centrists at recent budget deliberations, for example. And no one among them is a possible mayoral challenger to Ford, so forget seeing a clear break from those who occupy council’s middle. The mushies are happy being mushy, and taking whatever scraps Ford tosses their way.

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the Libs to bury the Eglinton Crosstown to take legal effect. A move is afoot to revive the Sheppard LRT part now that Ford’s Sheppard subway plans are seemingly toast. The hopedfor private billions are nowhere to be found.

The mayor, though, seems convinced the province will bail him out on Sheppard. He notes the feds have come to the table with $383 mil for the project. But the last thing the province wants is to make Ford look good.

The kicker in that mess is that taxpayers are on the hook for the $65 million it cost to bury Transit City when the mayor declared that plan dead. Ford insists that figure is “completely fictitious.”

as counterintuitive as it may seem, it’s his allies on the right that Ford needs to worry about most. If there’s to be a challenger to the mayor in 2014, it will most likely come from the right. (My guess: Karen Stintz).

Some among the mayor’s coterie have, if not abandoned ship entirely (the departure of Ford press secretary Adrienne Batra was a defining moment) are showing signs of outgrowing the mayor.

There’s tremendous anxiety over the host of cuts proposed in the 2012 budget.

Ford’s base in Scarborough is looking shaky given the goings-on not only around the botched Sheppard subway plan, but also the whole host of services on the chopping block in challenged parts of that burb.

The push-back is coming from the city bureaucracy, too. Not all departments heeded the mayor’s call to cut 10 per cent from the bottom line.

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found “easily” in bur­ eaucratic fat – the narra­ tive is now about selling off city assets and surplus land to make the books (read Ford) look good.

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If hubris doesn’t get him... call it a coincidence or call me one twisted mutha. But am I the only one led by the mayor’s year­end gab­ fests with local media to see a weird synchronicity between Rob Ford and the late Korean dictator Kim Jong­il?

I’ve often wondered about Ford’s ap­ preciation for hand­ painted urns, earthen­ ware being big in North Korea. But not to stray too far from the point.

Kim, we’re told, was a student of the cine­ matic arts. Our not­so­ humble leader is a drama queen, too. He’s taken to the stage twice in cameos this year.

But Ford has saved his best acting for his real­life role as chief magis­ trate, never letting reality interfere with his fantastical thinking.

The mayor unleashed a few whop­ pers in those year­end one­on­ones with reporters last week. Pretty soon he’ll be selling videos, like Don Cherry’s greatest hits.

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The mind­numbing “Stay the course” spiel is meant to project the image of a mayor in charge. Noth­ ing could be further from the truth.

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add kim jong-il to the year’s already substantial fallen dictator list. Take your news from Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, or from Mayan temple walls. Look at the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement or the demise of Durban and Kyoto. These all point to a similar outlook for the year ahead: we are at the end of an era.

But, hey, whether we like it or not, it’s at the end of things that what comes next is birthed. But first the hard labour.

Choosing Bank of Canada language, this is “the end of the ‘debt super-cycle.’”

From Carney’s comments to the nation via a speech at the Empire Club earlier this month, you can clearly read that global financial stability is now on the endangered species list right beside polar bears. Yes, Canada, happily, is more stable than most countries. But global conditions are melting, and no one knows how fast.

Of course, he didn’t put it quite that way. He said, “Current events mark a rupture. Advanced economies have steadily increased leverage [debt] for decades. That era is now decisively over.”

On the economic front, his word to

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watch for in 2012 is “deleveraging.” It means dumping debt, which sounds virtuous. But in fact, it’s all about the 99 per cent getting structurally adjusted into austerity and joblessness.

In Canada, we’re starting to get the feel of the program, with Harper and Ford hard at work pretending that Canada’s government debt is our biggest problem even though Europe, the U.S. and Japan would all laugh that thought out of the room.

Our economy’s actual Achilles heel, according to Carney, is Canada’s high household debt, which has now surpassed that of the U.S. The risk is that global instability could fuel a negative spiral of rising interest rates that could lower housing prices. In that case, “deleveraging” would see a lot of people lose their homes and security. The other issue he highlights is a notable lack of borrowing and investment on the part of corporate Canada.

It is truly a bad day when the corporate world is a disappointment even to the likes of Mark Carney. The point of his speech was to rouse Canada’s business elite to put their money to productive work.

He explains that the borrowing boom was mainly by households,

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and then governments (stimulus and bailouts), instead of business. “In general, the more that households and governments drive leverage [borrowing], the less the productive capacity of the economy expands, and the less sustainable the overall debt burden ultimately is.

“For the most part, increases in corporate debt [outside of the finance sector] have been modest to negative over the past 30 years,” says Carney. And he does not think that’s a good thing. Carney has been saying this stuff about investing in productivity for years, but Canada’s big businesses haven’t listened up yet. Don’t hold your breath.

“Decisively ended,” “less sustainable.” These are strong words from the governor of the Bank of Canada and the head of the G20’s Financial Stability Board. There’s nothing pretty about the scope of our problems. It is an eerie time.

Mind you, at every time in history – indeed, at every moment – somebody’s world is falling apart. But the scale and number of systems in

breakdown mode lend a sci-fi feel to the news almost each and every day.

As promised more than 1,000 years ago, 2012 will be a wild child. So here’s my advice: you want to be on side with the stuff that is busy being born as opposed to what is dying.

That’s it – our fabulous assignment for 2012 and the key to living well in the worst of times. Innovation is the watchword at a time of breakdown like this. It’s the key to resilience. We

the tipping point for the spread of ideas only takes 10 per cent of the population can all give ourselves the creative job, paid or otherwise, of trying to usher in positive change in our own way. That will pave the road to happiness in these strange times.

We do need to ready ourselves for more of the unexpected. Some stuff will be great, like the Occupy movement. Even if we never see another actual tent, it will continue to shine a light all over 2012 because, along with the camping action, it brought a new worldview into focus.

Two new studies from the emerging discipline of network science point to some of the surprising directions this may lead in the coming new year. A taste of the future comes via a study by complex system researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology who wanted to see if capitalism really is a conspiracy. They analyzed ownership connectivity between all the transnational corporations they could find in a gigantic database of companies and investors worldwide.

They found a group of 1,318 companies with interlocking ownership that control most of the world’s bluechip and manufacturing firms and 60 per cent of global revenues. At the centre of these, they were shocked to discover a “super-entity” of 147 tightly connected companies that on their own control 40 per cent of the total wealth of the entire global network.

Most were financial institutions.

They’re not saying it’s a conspiracy exactly. Natural systems also show this connective tendency.

It’s just too early to say what this means in terms of conscious cooperation in the competitive business world. But now that the 1 per cent has our deep attention, we and they may be in for some mind-bending revelations. Income inequality and the way wealth is concentrated at the top could turn out to be earth-shaking this upcoming year.

Another truly surprising network science finding confirms the potential good news that could come from our pro-change survival strategy if enough of us really go for it. A U.S. Army-backed study of the spread of ideas from minority to majority has found that the tipping point is reached when just 10 per cent of the population hold a belief.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 per cent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said coauthor Boleslaw Szymanski. “Once that number grows above 10 per cent, the idea spreads like flame.”

That does explain how Tunisia and Egypt toppled their dictators. And it is a powerful message of hope. The potential it points to for non-violent fast-acting social change is enormous. But to do that, we will need to find a way to cohere in our beliefs in some new and improved fashion.

Whatever it may be, if we find the right kind of compelling belief, we could make a miracle.

Perhaps it’s time to go back to the insights of the great teacher of nonviolence, Martin Luther King, to see if his concept of “beloved community” might be just the vehicle we need for the challenge of this new time.

This could be our year to discover that caring for each other and the world around us is the whole reason we are here.

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Out with the old, in with the green If we were making wine out of green progress, you might, right about now, be tempted to spit 2011 back into the bottle.

Yet another climate conference failed, Canada officially pissed on the planet by pulling out of Kyoto, 700 jobs were axed at Environment Canada.

But on the bright side, a new wave of activism was roused, and that can only mean a deeper, more inspired battle for the good of the planet in 2012. Grassroots foot soldiers, from community gardeners to global occupiers, you’re our silver lining.

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WE LOSE GREENEST CITY TITLE

What a difference a mayor makes. Say goodbye to having His Worship chair the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, champion the greenest roofs in North America and steer a transit revolution – unless slashing bus and streetcar service counts.

If it clears, Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget will gut the city’s green core – the 2009 Climate Change, Clean Air And Sustainable Energy Plan – as well as a global warming preparedness program called Ahead Of The Storm.

And thanks to the axing of over a million in funding from our tree programs, you can expect our already struggling urban foliage to look even sadder, and more hazardous falling trees to make the local news.

No surprise, Ford wants to delay our much-praised tree canopy targets, too, but hasn’t shared any deets. Another future Ford alert: he’s going to try to keep our last dirty sewage incinerator from closing.

The long-scheduled ushering in of recycling for clear, rigid “clamshell” plastic containers won’t be enough to save us on its own. You’ll need to sign the Toronto Environmental Alliance’s petition to preserve our green programs at torontoenvironment.org. Tell your councillor that these cuts can’t go through if he or she wants to keep your vote. We still have a chance to clear some smog from my crystal ball.

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As the feds try to win brownie points with Canadian families freaked out by the chemical bath that is today’s world, expect Health Canada to finally take a stand on antibacterial triclosan this spring.

The nefarious endocrine disruptor and superbug breeder found in hand and dish soap, acne wash and more is slated for review. The Canadian Medical Association called for a ban on it in 2009, so restricting the chem would get the feds lots of positive media play, which they desperately need.

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American activists wait with bated breath to see if Republicans force a vote on the pipeline in February south of the border, and we can also expect high-profile pipeline protests on Toronto’s streets in May around Enbridge’s annual general meeting. Besides the fact that the company is proposing the controversial Northern Gateway Pipeline to carry tar sands crude oil from near Edmonton westward to port at Kitimat, BC, there’s also an Ontario angle.

Enbridge is seeking to reverse the east-to-west oil flow on old Line 9 so it can move tar sands oil west to east, through Ontario to Portland, Maine, where it would be shipped down the east coast by tanker.

But local landowners, enviro orgs and First Nations groups won’t have it, especially since the 35-year-old pipeline is made of the same material as the Enbridge pipeline that spilled over 3 million litres in Michigan last year. [ ACTION Thanks ] to that growing resistance, there’ll now be a public hearing on the matter in fall 2012. Want to prep for mass opposition in the new year? Greenpeace will _____ PDFX1A to Publication be holding civil disobedience training across the nation. Sign up to lend a hand. A hundred bucks says change will come from the ground up.

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It dawned on me recently that I’m not a very good human being. I don’t give to charity, always forget birthdays, never call my mother and usually leave parties without saying goodbye to anyone.

My only contribution to society, I realized, is that I’ve saved the lives of countless kittens.

In 2012, I resolve to save more.

Conservatively, there are 100,000 homeless felines in the city. There are 6 million reasons to reduce that number.

One is that the cats that survive our brutal winter lead a wretched existence. They’re starved and disease-ridden. They fight predators for their lives. They live one or two years. For humans, witnessing all this amounts to torture.

Another is that while they are alive, they behave like savages, killing birds, squirrels and other animals and causing millions of dollars’ worth of property damage. They produce volumes of kittens who continue this disruptive tradition.

If these arguments don’t compel you to join my rescue mission to help control the feral population, there’s this: cats are our responsibility.

We entered into a contract with them 10,000

years ago to care for one another – a pact still binding today.

Furthermore, cats and humans are inseparable.

Choose any feral cat on the street and trace its family history. There’s a near 100 per cent chance that somewhere in history its ancestors and yours shared a home.

Responsibility aside, taking action to stop the vicious cat cycle is personally rewarding.

Every single creature I get spayed or neutered prevents another generation of suffering ferals.

At the end of October, my wife and I were walking to the grocery store when we heard the screeches of a cat fight in a neighbouring yard. I looked over the fence and saw three cats and two kittens about size of my palm. They were so malnourished, they looked more like Gremlins than cats.

The property owners didn’t care much about them and gave us a week to get them out of their yard.

We arranged for a volunteer from Annex Cat Rescue to help us trap the creatures – trap, neuter, return – and relocate them. (I can’t say where.

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ships and other green opportunities at this urban nature centre. 550 Bayview. 416-5961495, evergreen.ca. george brown college Evening, weekend, day and online courses to discover a new hobby, skills or career. Classes in business, decorating, fashion, film, health sciences, jewellery, languages, photography, technology, visual arts, writing and more. Downtown campuses. 416-415-2000, coned. georgebrown.ca. goethe-institut Group and individual courses in German. 100 University, ste 201.

416-593-5257, goethe.de/toronto. harbourfront centre Courses on ceramics, glassblowing, jewellery, textiles and more.

York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com. harris institute Professional development program offers weekend certificate courses in music publishing, live sound, artist management, Pro Tools and more. 118 Sherbourne.

416-367-0178, harrisinstitute.com. istituto italiano di cultura Classes in Italian for all levels, plus culture and history. 496 Huron, 416-921-3802; 4550 Hwy 7, #210, Vaughan. 905-265-8492. iictoronto.esteri.it.

japanese canadian cultural centre

Japanese language classes for adults, plus brush painting, ikebana, Japanese musical instruments and more. 6 Garamond. 416-4412345, jccc.on.ca. ksdl tibetan buddhist centre Intro to Buddhism, green and white Tara, medicine, guru yoga and shamata classes. 86 Vaughan. 416653-5371, ksdl.org.

miles nadal jewish community centre

Classes in Hebrew and Yiddish language, Jewish music and culture, arts and fitness. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, mnjcc.org. spanish centre Beginner to advanced classes, private lessons and cultural events. 46 Hayden. 416-925-4652, spanishcentre.com. toronto botanical garden Gardening classes, botanical art, decor and green roof workshops. 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340, torontobotanicalgarden.ca.

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toronto public library Courses and workshops, many of them free, include computer and internet training, investing, small business, public speaking, genealogy and more.

Income tax clinics Feb through April. Calendars available at local branches. torontopubliclibrary.ca. winchevsky centre Classes in Yiddish, a Yiddish reading circle, lecture series, workshops, forums, film nights and more. 585 Cranbrooke. 416-789-5502, winchevskycentre.org.

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derers to do them harm, believe it or not.)

We rescued the kittens and had the two older cats spayed/neutered. We released back into the wild, ears clipped to show they’d been fixed.

Now these cats belong to the neighbourhood. They live in a space generously donated by my grocery store, in shelters we built at the Humane Society. Three shifts of neighbours help me feed them.

It’s a not perfect situation. I have no idea what will happen come spring when the grocery store has to use the space again, or if the shelters will even be warm enough in winter – but it feels wonderful to help these magnificent animals make a better life for themselves.

So, sure, I could tip more in restaurants or stop shoplifting from the bulk bin at my grocery store or start replying to emails. But I don’t think any of those good deeds has as much impact as helping those cats – and their kittens, and their kittens’ kittens – out of misery.

Here’s to a happy new year to all of the city’s feral cats. May you be fixed, fed and fulfilled in 2012.

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Ideas for tendIng your temple arabesque academy Authentic and traditional Middle Eastern dance and music with belly dancing classes at all levels, drum and music class, summer camp and more. 1 Gloucester, suite 107. 416-920-5593, arabesquedance.ca. bikram yoga beaches/bloor Hatha yoga series practised in a hot studio. Beaches (1911 Queen E, 416-686-2584), Bloor (208 Bloor W, 416-691-7575), bikramyogatoronto.com. classical martial arts canada Karate-do, jiu jitsu, self-defence, tai chi chuan, chi gung, and holistic fitness. 52 St Clair E (416-9231501), 918 Bathurst (416-550-4658), 978 Eg-

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linton W (416-535-1501), and other locations. cmac1.ca. columbus centre Classes in dance, music, cooking, Italian language and culture, sports including squash, aquafit, boxing, tennis, yoga and more. 901 Lawrence W. 416-7897011, villacharities.com. downward dog yoga centre Group classes at all levels and teacher training in ashtanga yoga. 735 Queen W (416-703-8805), and 1977 Queen E (416-693-4088). downwarddog.com. moksha yoga Yoga postures practised in a heated room. 577 Wellington W (416-3613033), 1498 Yonge (416-868-9642), 372A Danforth (416-778-7744), 2454 Bloor W (416-7669642) and other locations in the greater Toronto area. mokshayoga.ca.

prosserman jewish community centre

Fitness classes, ice hockey, folk dancing, basketball, music classes and more. 4588 Bathurst. 416-638-1881, prossermanjcc.com. spanish centre Salsa classes offered evenings and weekends. 46 Hayden. 416-9254652, spanishcentre.com. spynga Yoga, spinning, yoga/spin fusion, weight and circuit training classes. 1415 Bathurst (416-588-7796), and 10 Disera, Thornhill (905-882-7799). spynga.com. taoist tai chi society of canada Courses in Tai Chi, meditation and other internal arts.

Downtown, 134 D’Arcy (416-656-2110), Scarborough, 2190 Warden (416-298-1886), Midtown, 1376 Bathust (416-656-7479), and others. toronto.taoist-tai-chi.org. toronto climbing academy State-of-theart World Cup walls, bulges and stalactites and an imprint 3-D climbing surface, with lessons at all levels. 11 Curity. 416-406-5900, climbingacademy.com. toronto parks and recreation Fitness classes, yoga, Pilates, volleyball, swimming, basketball and more. Various locations in the city. toronto.ca/parks. toronto school of circus arts Trapeze, trampoline, aerial arts, acrobatics and more.

8-75 Carl Hall, Downsview Park. 416-9350037, torontocircus.com. toronto sport and social club Co-ed and single sex sports leagues outdoors and indoors including basketball, floor hockey, fitness classes, indoor soccer, dodgeball, indoor ultimate frisbee and more. Various locations in the city. 416-781-4263, torontossc.com. u of t athletic centre Strength and conditioning centre, indoor track, three pools, dropin classes, racquet sports, dance studio and more. 55 Harbord. 416-978-3436, physical. utoronto.ca. ymca Metro-Central, 20 Grosvenor (416-9759622), North York, 567 Sheppard E (416-2259622), Scarborough, 230 Town Centre (416296-9622), and West End (931 College, 416536-9622). Complete roster of fitness classes, circuit training, swimming, racquet sports and more. ymcagta.org.

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SUGGESTED PLACES TO NOURISH YOUR SPIRITUAL SIDE an enchanted evening Sunday evening group meditation. Chanting of sacred mantras and breathing meditation. Vegetarian dinner offered. 6 to 8 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234, meditationtoronto.com. beit zatoun Cultural centre, gallery and community meeting space that promotes the interplay of art, culture and politics to explore issues of social justice and human rights. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500, beitzatoun.org. centre for inquiry The mission of the centre is to foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry and humanist values. Science & Philosophy book club, Toronto Atheists and Friends meetup, Living Without Religion, Cafe Skeptique and other events offered. 2 College. 416-971-5676, cficanada.ca/ ontario. centre for spiritual living Inclusive spiritual community whose beliefs are in harmony with all spiritual teachings and honours all paths to spiritual awareness. Holds meditations and inspirational programs on Sundays.

1311 Queen E. 416-778-5433, csltoronto.org. diamond way buddhist centre Meditation centre in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Guru yoga meditation, retreats, lectures and workshops offered. 395 Markham. 416-840-4575, diamondway.org. first unitarian congregation of toronto

Spiritual community that practises respect for other faiths, reason, tolerance and love. Workshops in Unitarian Universality And You, new member ceremonies, activity fairs and congregational conversations. 175 St Clair W. 416-924-9654, firstunitariantoronto.org. humanist association of toronto Devoted to promoting secular humanism as an alternative to religion. 416-966-1361, humanisttoronto.blogspot.com. kadampa meditation centre Chanted prayer, guided meditation, practical instruc-

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karma sonam dargye ling

Tibetan Buddhist centre offering meditation classes, deity practice, intro to Buddhism and Buddhist retreats. 86 Vaughan. 416653-5371, ksdl.org. noor cultural centre A centre for Islamic learning and the celebration of Islamic culture. Noor offers introductory courses on the Qur’an and lectures on various topics, and provides resources on nonviolence theory and practice. 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca. religious society of friends The Quakers hold services Sundays at 11 am. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-921-0368. web. net/~tmm. toronto national baha’i centre Founded in 19th-century Persia, this religion is based on principles of justice and unity. The centre holds weekly multi-faith devotions. 7200 Leslie, Thornhill. 905-889-8168, ca.bahai.org.

toronto shambhala meditation centre

Tibetan Buddhist centre offers free instructional meditation, intensive sessions, contemplative arts and disciplines programs and more. 670 Bloor W. 416-588-6465, shambhala.org.

toronto zen centre Zen Buddhism centre offers workshops, meditation and spiritual practice.

33 High Park Gardens. 416-7663400, torontozen.org. united jewish people’s order

Secular progressive Jewish organization holds holiday celebrations and intergenerational programs at Winchevsky Centre. 585 Cranbrooke. 416789-5502, winchevskycentre.org.

volunteer toronto 416-961-6888, volunteertoronto.ca.

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B & W Party (Serving Charity/Beads for Beds) Performances by Ritalin, Satoshi Saito, the Damaged Good and others. 8 pm. $10 or $8 w/ food donation. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina.

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FBoxIng Day FestIval & FooD DrIve (local food banks) Performances by Norvasia, Proof of Ghosts, Whale Tooth, Cave Baby and many others. Today and tomorrow 9 pm. $5, or $3 w/ non-perishable food item. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. garrisontoronto.com. save our seya (South Etobicoke Youth Assembly) Fundraising party in support of youth programs. 7 pm. $10-$20. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. seyalamp.blogspot.com.

Events

FrChrIstmas In the Park Discover festive

traditions in the winter wonderland of High Park and enjoy mulled cider and treats. TueSun from noon-4 pm to Jan 8. $3-$6. Colborne Lodge, S end of High Park. 416-392-6916. rDIsney on ICe 100th-anniversary ice skating show with highlights from The Lion King, Toy Story and more. To Jan 1. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416-314-1707. rPIoneer Fun! One-day camps for kids five

to 12 with games, crafts, cooking and more.

Today and tomorrow 9 am-4 pm. $31. Scarborough Historical Museum, 1007 Brimley. Preregister 416-338-8807. rsCIenCe on the go Kids eight and up participate in hands-on science experiments and more. Today-Dec 30 and Jan 2-6, 11:30 am.

Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Fra vICtorIan ChrIstmas In toronto Experience a traditional Christmas in an 1859 row house. Tue-Fri from noon-4 pm, Sat-Sun noon-5 pm to Jan 8. $3-$6. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915.

FrWInter Break at the Zoo Free wagon rides, meet a zookeeper and see your animal friends. To Jan 8, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. $23, srs $17, child (4 to 12) $13, child (under 3) free. Toronto Zoo, 2000 Meadowvale. 416-392-5900.

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Walk through the historic market to view the diverse festivals of light and sample foods.

9:30 am-1 pm. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30. Red pole with black cat at 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Saturday, December 31

Benefits

the resolutIon run (Achilles Canada) Fundraising run or walk. 9:30 am. $55. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. events.runningroom.com.

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rCItytv neW year’s Bash Outdoor alcohol-

free celebration with performances by Down with Webster, Howie D, Anjulie and others. 10 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. citytv.com. neW year’s BoWlIng Bash Bowling for four, two games each. Pool tables, cocktail lounges, jukeboxes and more. 6 & 10:30 pm. $115 (includes bowling shoes, food and a glass of bubbly). All Star Interactive, 2791 Eglington E. Reserve 416-261-5011, allstarinteractive.ca. rneW year’s eve FamIly CountDoWn Animal visists, keeper talks, Abbamania, Majinx Magic Show, the WotWots, Shrek and kid’s countdown. 5 to 8 pm. $20, child $12 (3 and under free). Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. rPaInt your oWn mona lIsa Portrait painting class for kids eight and up. Today and tomorrow 1 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. tam tam Drum CIrCle Open drum circle and dance, bring your own percussion instrument.

9 pm. $5. Xing Dance Studio, 452 College. myspace.com/torontotamtam. toronto IslanDs Walk Urban ecology walk.

1 pm. Free. Ferry docks, foot of Bay. 415-5932656.

What’s your story? Afternoon of storytelling from diverse cultural traditions. Today and tomorrow. 2, 3 & 4 pm. Free. Harbourfront

Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rWorlD healIng event Music by Brent Titcomb, meditation with Eli Bay, a talk by Barbara Shreiner-Trudel and a candle-lighting ceremony. 6:30 to 8 am. Free (community breakfast $10). St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-690-2095, universallightcentre.com.

Sunday, January 1

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Play for prizes. $10/team. Pour Boy, 666 Manning. 416-343-7969.

Events

Frmayor’s neW year’s Day levee Join Mayor Ford and city councillors for a traditional levee. 2 to 4 pm. Free. City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen W. toronto.ca. sorauren Park Farmers’ market Mondays year-round. 3-7 pm. Sorauren S of Dundas. westendfood.coop.

Tuesday, January 3 rBIrDs oF a Feather: nature & art together Guided nature walks with wild bird

hand-feeding. Today, tomorrow and Jan 5, 9:30 & 10:30 am. Free. MacEwan Field Station (Mississauga). Pre-register 905-279-5878. rlearn to skate Lessons for kids and adults of all skill levels start today and run to Jan 29.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4093. olDer lesBIans Book grouP The book club meets to discuss Lisa Genova’s Still Alice. 1 pm.

Free. 519 Church Community Centre. 647-2350843. the stoP’s gooD FooD market Tuesdays year-round. 4-6 pm. Davenport-Perth Neighbourhod Centre, 1900 Davenport. thestop.org.

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the first big design do of the year is always the Interior Design Show (interiordesignshow.com). this year’s event running January 26 to 29 evolves with the addition of Offsite/Onsite, a 10,000-square-foot space on the main level of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre where design outfits like Moss & Lam, Rad and ACIDO stage a series of experimental installations. to really get off the beaten design path, though, you’ll have to check out MADE’s roving Radiant Dark exhibition (madedesign. ca/radiantdark), set up that week in a laneway garage off Dundas West.

Sometimes the simplest fashion concepts are the most promising. take Valentine K designer Lauren Waters, for example. the fanshawe College grad’s collection focuses solely on sweaters in soft cashmere accented with suede elbow patches or sequin pockets. they’re the kind of pieces you can see shoppers collecting and wearing daily, so it’s not surprising that after barely a month in business her list of stockists already includes tnt and Canopy Blue.

Literally speaking, the biggest store news in 2012 will be the opening of Yorkdale’s 145,000-square-foot, $220 million expansion. Speculation about which U.S. retailer will cross the border next to fill up the space has already begun. Down on Queen West, home shoppers are anticipating the January 21 launch of Crate & Barrel’s CB2 flagship in the meticulously rebuilt and restored space once occupied by the Big Bop.

Trend spotting forecasting womenswear trends based on the toronto runway alone used to be almost entirely futile, but big international style stories like maxi lengths, sheer fabrics and sporty details were out in full force at our spring 2012 shows in October. for the fellas, designer lines and mall labels are offering up juicy colours, unconventional plaids and shorts that (mercifully, for guys afraid to show some thigh) stretch almost to your kneecaps.

Save the dates Come Up To My Room (comeuptomyroom.com), the Gladstone’s own annual alt-design event, takes over the hotel January 26 to 29.

Toronto Fashion Week (lgfashionweek.ca) returns to David Pecaut Square in front of Metro hall for the fall 2012 season March 12 to 17. and 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the Toronto Fashion Incubator (fashionincubator.com).

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 In North America,

a farmer who grows wheat gets only 5 per cent of the money earned from a loaf of bread made from his crop. When my band recorded an album for MCA, our contract called for us to receive just 7 per cent of the net profits. I encourage you to push for a much bigger share than that for the work you do in 2012. It will be an excellent time to raise the level of respect you have for your own gifts, skills and products – and to ask for that increased respect as well.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 For much of

the 19th century, aluminum was regarded as a precious metal more valuable than gold. It was even used for the capstone of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1884. The reason for this curiosity? Until the 1890s, it was difficult and expensive to extract aluminum from its ore. Then a new technology was developed that made the process very cheap. In 2012, Taurus, I’m predicting a metaphorically similar progression in your own life. A goodie or an asset will become more freely available to you because of your increased ability to separate it from the slag it’s mixed with.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 The coming year will be a good time for you to consider investigating the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Devotees of this religion call themselves Pastafarians. Their main dogma is the wisdom of rejecting all dogma. Having such a light-hearted approach to spiritual matters would be quite healthy for you to experiment with. For extra credit, you could draw inspiration from a church member named Niko Alm. He convinced authorities to allow him to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s licence photo. A jaunty approach to official requirements and formal necessities will also serve you well.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Terrence Malick’s

Tree of Life is an ambitious work that deviates from formulaic approaches to filmmaking. Some observers hated its experimental invocation of big ideas, while others approved. New York Times critic A.O. Scott compared the movie to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, one of America’s great works of literature.

Here’s what Scott wrote: “Mr. Malick might have been well advised to leave out the dinosaurs and the trip to the afterlife and given us a delicate chronicle of a young man’s struggle with his father and himself. And perhaps Melville should have suppressed his philosophizing impulses and written a lively tale of a whaling voyage.” Using this as a template, Cancerian, I urge you to treat 2012 as a time when you will be like Melville and Malick in your chosen field. Trust your daring, expansive vision.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 I love the way they

celebrate the new year in Stonehaven, Scotland. A procession of revellers swings big flaming baskets around on the ends of long chains. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ritual as you barge into 2012, Leo. Symbolically speaking, it would set the perfect tone. The coming months should be a kind of extended fire festival for you – a time when you faithfully stoke the blaze in your belly, the radiance in your eyes and the brilliance in your heart. Are you ready to bring all the heat and light you can to the next phase of your master plan? I hope so. Burn, baby, burn.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Historian David

McCullough wrote The Greater Journey, a book telling the stories of ambitious young American artists who relocated to Paris between 1830 and 1900. They had to move away because their home country had no museums or art schools at that time. You Virgos may want to consider seeking a similar enlargement of your possibilities in the coming months. As you seek out the resources that will help you follow your dreams, be prepared to look beyond what you already know and what’s immediately available.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Professional basketball player Ron Artest petitioned the court to let him change his name to “Metta World Peace.” “Metta” is a Buddhist term that signifies loving-kindness and benevolence. When the new moniker finally became official, Metta World Peace sealed a radical shift away from his old way of doing things, symbolized by the time he leaped into the stands in the middle of a game to punch a fan in the head. The coming months will be an excellent time for you Libras to initiate a rite of passage that will expedite an equally dramatic transformation. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Many of the questions we had as children never got resolved or answered to our satisfaction. They’re still marinating in the back of our minds. Meanwhile, fresh queries keep welling up within us as the years go by. After a while, we’ve got a huge collection of enigmas, riddles and conundrums. Some of us regard this as a tangled problem that weighs us down, while others see it as a sparkly delight that keeps making life more and more interesting. Where do you stand on the issue, Scorpio? If you’re in the latter group, you will be fully open to the experiences that will be flowing your way in 2012. And that means you will be blessed with a host of sumptuous and catalytic new questions. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 The first

half of 2012 will be an excellent time to for you to exorcize any prejudices you

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might be harbouring toward anyone who lives or thinks differently from you.

You’ll be able to see your own irrational biases with exceptional clarity, and are also likely to have exceptional success at scouring yourself free of them. This will give you access to new reserves of psychic energy you didn’t even realize you were shut off from. (P.S. I’m not saying you possess more intolerance or narrow-mindedness than any of the rest of us. It’s just that this is your time to deal brilliantly with your share of it.)

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 In Botti-

celli’s painting The Birth Of Venus, the goddess of beauty and love is shown arriving on dry land for the first time after having been born in the ocean. Naked, she is trying to cover her private parts with her hand and thigh-length hair.

Her attendant, a fully clothed nymph, is bringing a cloak to cover her up. Analyzing this scene, art critic Sister Wendy suggests it’s actually quite sad. It symbolizes the fact that since we humans can’t bear the confrontation with sublime beauty, we must always keep it partly hidden. Your assignment in the coming year, Capricorn, is to overcome this inhibition. I invite you to retrain yourself so you can thrive in the presence of intense, amazing and transformative beauty.

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AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 The coming

months will be an excellent time to take an inventory of your life to determine whether there are any ways in which you act like a slave. Do you find it hard to defeat an addiction that saps your energy and weakens your ability to live the life you want? Are there institutions that you help sustain even though they cause harm to you and others? Is it hard for you to change or end your relationships with people who are no damn good for you? Are you trapped in a role or behaviour that’s at odds with your high ideals? Discover what these oppressors are, Aquarius – and then summon all your intelligence and willpower to escape them.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 California engin-

eer Ron Patrick put a jet engine in his silver VW Beetle. Now he’s got a 1,450-horsepower vehicle – but it’s not legal for him to drive on public highways. In the coming year, Pisces, I suspect you’ll be tempted to try something similar: create a dynamic tool with a modest appearance or a turbo-charged source of energy in a deceptively small package. But if you do, please make sure you can actually use it to improve your ability to get around and make your life better.

Homework: To check out Part One of my three-part audio forecasts of your destiny in 2012, go to http:// bit.ly/BigPicture2012.

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food&drink forecast 201 MICHAEL WATIER

David Chang brings two new Momofuku restos to the Shangri-La Hotel.

Sons of Susur Top chef Susur Lee and his sons Kai and Levi Bent-Lee have revealed that their as-yet unnamed venture on the newly hip Dundas West strip will focus on oysters, sushi and champagne. The opening is pencilled in for March.

Those who fear the globe-trotting Lee might be spreading himself too thin will want to remember that Dundas and Bathurst is closer to home than Singapore.

DAVID LAURENCE

Shant Mardirosian is opening a new Burger’s Priest on Yonge.

Beast

Fuku, too Although they’re still months away from completion, Manhattan celebuchef David Chang’s two new Momofuku restaurants in downtown’s yetto-be-completed Shangri-La Hotel are sure to be the most hotly anticipated openings of the coming year.

Others are already jumping on board, as witness County General’s Chang-inspired take on steamed Chinese buns stuffed with smoked pork belly. Whether Toronto will take to more upscale Korean with a twist – kimchee quesadillas, anyone? – in the wake of Swish by Han, Bi Bim Bap and the two Guu’s remains to be seen.

Second Coming Long-predicted, Shant Mardirosian’s new Burger’s Priest at 3397 Yonge at the top of Hogg’s Hollow near the old Glen Echo Loop should be open next week. The good news: the new Priest is four times the size of the original location. The bad news: that means 16 seats instead of four. Bonus: onion rings!

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96 Tecumseth, at Whitaker, 647-352-6000, thebeastrestaurant.com. Once the cramped side-street storefront home of Susur Lee’s legendary Lotus, Ex-JKWB vets Scott and Rachelle Vivian’s neighbourhood bistro (beast-ro?) goes the snout-to-tail route. Best: the McBeastwich, house-baked buttermilk biscuit piled with southern fried chicken thigh, pimento cheese, two fried eggs and house taters in pork sausage gravy;the Labatt 50 breakfast, two eggs any style except poached paired with housesmoked bacon or chorizo, toast, taters and a bottle of cold 50; French-pressed coffee with digital timers. Open Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washroom on same floor. Rating: nnn

Caplansky’s

356 College, at Brunswick, 416-500-3852, caplansky.com. Located at the top of Kensington Market, this always busy 60-seat eatery hearkens back to legendary and long-gone Spadina delis like Switzer’s and the Bagel. Best: the Leaning Tower of Caplansky, an almost architectural stack of three thickly sliced slices of eggy pan-fried Silverstein’s challah spread with alternating layers of buttery Mendel Creamery’s’s Cream cheese and house-made blueberry jam in real maple syrup, dusted with confectioner’s sugar and garnished with fatfree rashers of house-cured jerky-like beef bacon and fruit salad (aka French toast).

Complete breakfasts for $25 per person, including tax, tip and the hair of the dog.

Average main $12. Open Sunday 10 am to 8 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn

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Don’t eat wheat

DAVID LAURENCE

Eat brunch NOW Now under new management, the NOW Lounge (189 Church, at Shuter, 416-364-1300, nowlounge.com) launches its Sunday brunches on New Year’s Day, starting at 10:30 am. Count on virtuous vittles like whole grain granola with hemp milk, kefir and maple syrup alongside free-range huevos rancheros and vegan key lime pie.

These cool brunch spots are open New Year’s Day Compiled by Steven Davey

Life’s a slice Pizzeria Libretto isn’t the only local pie slinger expanding its brand. Plucky Pizza e Pazzi looks set to open a second outpost on St. Clair in February, this time at Christie across from the Stockyards in the old Chez Leopold space. And though Libretto’s Rocco Agostino says two insanely popular parlours are plenty for the time being, he and partner Max Rimaldi are backing ex-Black Hoof chef Grant van Gameren in a new project expected next fall. We’ll wager it won’t be Italian.

Avant-garde Hungarian, perhaps?

Brunch crunch

Kai (left) and Levi Bent-Lee, sons of Susur Lee, are set to launch their own eatery on Dundas West.

December 29 2011 - january 4 2012 NOW

Just as locavore and all-natural have evolved into food industry buzz words, the phrase “gluten-free” will soon be popping up on menus everywhere.

And it’s not only those with celiac disease who are avoiding wheat. William Davis’s best-selling Wheat Belly points out that the elimination of wheat from the diet – everyday carbs like pasta and bread – not only promotes weight loss but lowers cholesterol, improves bone density and even counters hair loss.

Call it Atkins 2.0.

Sure, we’ve already got several spots with gluten-free dishes on their cards (Cardinal Rule on Roncesvalles, Hogtown Vegan on Bloor West, Caroline’s on Parliament), but I’m predicting trendy wheat-free Korean as the next big food trend. With an upscale twist, of course. And you can say goodbye to cupcakes, the combo of refined sugar and refined wheat, the double whammy of death.

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1033 Bay, at Irwin, 416-923-8784. Sister of the equally OTT Crown Prince in Scarborough, this opulent Chinese dining room – think Versace does Versailles – offers suburban-style dim sum daily. Servers in French maid costumes and Strauss waltzes on the sound system only add to the luxury. Best: siu mai upgraded with foie-gras-like goose liver mousse and black caviar; classic shrimp har gow and pan-fried turnip cake with Chinese sausage; Chiu Chow dumplings with ground pork, chives and crunchy peanuts; tender octopus tentacles in five-spice powder; to finish, flaky milk custard tarts with bird’s nest. Complete dim sum meals for $30 per person, including tax, tip and tea. Average dim sum $4. Open Sunday 9 am to 4 pm.

Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnnn

edward levesque’s kitChen

1290 Queen E, at Hastings, 416-465-3600, edwardlevesque.ca. Chef Levesque’s converted greasy spoon has been wowing local foodies since it launched in 2003, long before Leslieville was a trendy dining destination. Uninviting from the street, this spacious room’s retro decor mirrors a menu of modern comfort food that often employs homegrown organic veggies. Best: Belgian waffles with red berry sauce, orange butter and honey; latkes topped with Kristapsons smoked salmon, sour cream and chives; sides of chipotle cornbread, Cumbrae’s breakfast bangers, and Boston baked beans; to drink, bottomless cups of drip coffee. Complete brunches for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of plonk.

Average main $14. Open Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Rare perfection nnnn = Outstanding, almost flawless nnn = Worthy of repeat visits nn = Adequate n = You’d do better with a TV dinner

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WHAT’S HOT, WHAT’S NOT By STEVEN DAVEY

Le Canard Mort

896 Queen E, at Logan, 416-625-2653, lecanardmort.ca. Sister to Riverside’s Le Rossignol, this Leslieville gastro-pubslash-bistro has been a hit from the getgo. Best: toasted St Urbain bagels spread with Leslieville Cheese Market’s cream cheese topped with Kristapson’s smoked salmon; corned beef hash finished with two poached eggs and a side of multigrain toast from the bakery down the street; Benny Canard with duck confit and classic Hollandaise over English muffins. Open Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnn

LoLa’s KitChen

634 Church, at Hayden, 416-966-3991, lolaskitchen.ca. No longer known as Lola’s Commissary, this rambling Victorian is otherwise little changed. The same CD of non-stop 80s hits is still stuck in the sound system, servers are as easy-going as ever, and the all-day breakfast card remains virtually the same. Best: over-thetop eggy challah French toast stuffed with lemon vanilla cheesecake (!) finished with crushed apple pie, maple syrup and a dusting of confectioner’s sugar; the house bacon cheeseburger dressed with caramelized onion, house-made ketchup and a runny sunny-side-up egg sided with “sexy” roasted sweet potatoes. Complete brunches for $22, including tax, tip and a hair-of-the-dog beer.

Open Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: five steps at door, washrooms on second floor. Rating:

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Parts & Labour

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1566 Queen W, at Fuller, 416-5887750, partsandlabour.ca. Former La Palette and Oddfellows chef Matty Matheson takes rustic barnyard chic to the next level in industrial digs that wouldn’t be out of place in a penetentiary. Best: to start, requisitely flaky house-baked buttermilk biscuits with seasonal compote; the P&L, fried eggs topped with gorgeously fatty seared pork belly in maple trotter sauce sided with potato hash and pancakes; a proper English breakfast complete with streaky bacon, fried mushrooms and baked beans. Open Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnnn

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1112 Queen W, at Beaconsfield, 647-342-3732, poutini.com. The best poutinerie in town (take that, Smoke’s!) ups the stakes with the addition of oncea-year Sunday brunch poutine to its cholesterol-lovin’ card. Best: Poutine Florentine, hand-cut russet fries twice-cooked in trans-fat-free vegetable oil and lightly dusted in sea salt, layered with sautéed spinach, shallots and garlic, crumbled bacon, two poached eggs, super-squeaky cheese curds and creamy béchamel sauce; Maple Poutigly, your regular poutine with additional bacon and maple syrup. Open Sunday noon to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, no washrooms. Rating: nnnn

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Tiny Bubbles So you can do the right thing, here are two beautiful bubblies to help you greet the new year in style By GRAHAM DUNCAN WHAT: Bottega Gold Prosecco Rating: nnn WHERE: Veneto, Italy WHY: 2011 was a big year for gold, so let’s keep that lustrous momentum going by starting 2012 with this bauble of a bottle. Bottega always offers up a bright, fresh, fruity style. Gold brings apricot and melon flavours with echoes of same in the finish. If you can’t find the Gold, go for the regular Bottega Vino dei Poeti.

PRICE: 750 ml/$21.95 AVAILABILITY: At selected liquor stores (product #621458)

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1426 Bloor W, at Sterling, 647-3421567, zocalobistro.com. Whatever you do, don’t call it brunch. Instead, this idiosyncratic Junction Triangle kitchen serves what it refers to as “broken-bread sandwiches.” Translation: massive deconstructed veggie-friendly sandwich ’n’ salad combos. Best: shareable platters of French Canadian meat loaf with roasted potato and garlic confit salad; apricot ’n’ pork sausages poached in house-made cider over warm split peas and balsamic onion marmalade, all served with three types of St John Bakery sourdoughs and a mess o’ organic arugula, red radish, slivered daikon and baby plum tomatoes in red wine vinaigrette. Complete brunches for $25 per person, including tax, tip and a local lager. Average main $10. Open Sunday 10 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

Rating: nnnnn 3

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ñChampagne Rating: nnnn WHERE: Champagne, France

WHY: This is one of the best deals at the LCBO for those who want to toast the new year with a genuine champagne. It starts of with a warm, toasty brioche and baked meringue quality that gracefully transitions into an enduring citrus. Hugely drinkable. In addition to the gift-box package, there might still be a few of the bizarre red crocodile-skinned bottles left if you’re hoping to start 2012 with “symbols of wild luxury.”

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Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnnn

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music forecast 2012 The crumbling conventional music industry is changing drastically every day, but amidst all the chaos some promising trends are emerging.

By BENJAMIN BOLES, CARLA GILLIS and KEVIN RITCHIE

In 2011, Deadmau5 made history as the first canadian to headline skydome (sorry, Rogers centre). skrillex scooped up five Grammy nominations (the same number as lil Wayne). hometown heroes zeds Dead sold out the massive kool haus. toronto’s art Department and azari & III both caused dance music critics all over the world to cream their jeans.

No one would have predicted that dance music would make this kind of a comeback in 2011, but all signs point to its continuing to explode in 2012. That Live Nation has hired Ryan Kruger (founder of seminal Toronto rave promoter Destiny Productions) to run the new Electronic Nation Canada division tells you the big guns see real money in this market.

20,000 Deadmau5 fans sure don’t agree that rave is dead.

Direct sales

comedian Louis C.K. got twitter a-flutter this month after announcing that fans could stream or download his new live special for $5 on louisck.com. to avoid regional restrictions and DRM, he made it available in an unprotected format that would be easy to torrent. and yet very few people did that. Instead, in just four days and through only a couple tweets, he sold over 110,000 copies.

What can musicians learn from this? lots. selling high-quality material directly to fans at low cost and with as little fuss as possible gets them onside and fights piracy. Building and communicating with your fan base via social media is essential. so is investing in a robust website. Expect to see more of this corporate-skirting DIy Carla Gillis approach in the new year.

Weeknd learns to talk When mysterious toronto R&B sensation the Weeknd burst onto the scene last year, we were suspicious that his whole secrecy thing would turn out to be yet another cheesy teaser campaign disguising big-label money with inventive marketing. however, like many other music journalists around the world, we’ve been quietly building a stalker file about the real abel tesfaye, and it looks like the truth is pretty close to the official line: he really just wants it to be about the music, and he’s a genuinely shy guy overwhelmed by the explosion of hype.

Eventually, he has to get in front of the story and do an interview (preferably with NOW).

Otherwise, his story will be told through interviews with ex-girlfriends, former collaborators, fame-hungry acquaintances and past employers.

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Downsview Park

Expect a lot more events like 2003’s SARSstock concert at Downsview Park this year.

The incredible shrinking major labels Assuming that the recent sale of EMI isn’t blocked by anti-monopoly regulations, we’re now down to just three major labels in the world. What does this signify for the music? Well, if the past 15 years of consolidation are any indication, layoffs will mean that the surviving employees will be stretched even further (and they already seem stretched pretty thin compared to many of the indies).

You can also expect fewer artistic risks as shareholders demand constantly increasing profits, which usually translates into safe bets like nostalgia-driven greatest-hits packages and cheaply produced teen pop.

Parc Downsview Park will be seeing a lot more action this year thanks to Elliott Lefko, the veteran Toronto rock promoter who’s now a VP at Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice, the group behind the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

So far, Goldenvoice has announced two big Toronto shows: a June 19 Foster the People/Tokyo Police Club gig that launches a picturesque summer venue within Downsview Park called the Meadow, and Edgefest, the long-running alt extravaganza that takes place a month later in the park’s newly renovated and expanded main space. He says more gigs at concert theatres and clubs will be announced in the months ahead.

“I definitely intend to use my frequent flyer miles to come to Toronto more often,” says Lefko. “Downsview Park is a place where I can really explore my ideas over the next few years.”

Lately, Edgefest has suffered a crisis of relevancy, but he’s revitalizing it by booking more timely acts like Silversun Pickups, Billy Talent, Death from Above 1979 and the Sheepdogs.

“They’re all gonna have new records out next spring,” he says. “I’m looking to have radio play a lot of the new material .”

So, does he have any plans to launch a big outdoor festival in Toronto à la Coachella? “Not at this time,” he says.

“Perhaps in the future. I just need to get better at what I do right now and continue to build on festivals [like Edgefest] before I start taking on something on a multi-day basis.”

KEVIN RITCHIE

The return of the protest song The Occupy movement isn’t dominating headlines any more, but it has made its mark on the larger culture. All of a sudden, formerly apolitical musicians are talking like activists in interviews.

It’s only a matter of time before that filters down into the art.

Who wants to bet Kanye West (pictured) will trade rapping about Givenchy to writing anthems about income inequality?

Echo Beach Adieu, compact disc Over the past few years, even bands that have taken the digital and vinyl leap were still pressing compact discs in order to please iPod-averse or turntable-free fans and to have something to send out to radio and media, too. But like cassettes in the 90s, discs are increasingly becoming the format to hate, with music fans everywhere getting rid of their collections and media preferring download links over unwieldy press packages. Expect CD production to drop off substantially, if not entirely, in the new year and more digital download Ad_Now_1-5 231211.ai CARLA GILLIS 1 codes to come your way.

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At the same time as the industry prepares to phase out physical discs, the prestige of having a mammoth MP3 collection is similarly threatened. The more time we spend using subscription-based services like RDIO or Spotify, the less important owning even the digital files is becoming. With a bunch of competing companies looking to break into the Canadian marketplace this year and labels starting to realize that they’re just saying no to money if they refuse to sign on, expect the music nerd cachet of having a great iTunes library to go into rapid decline in 2012.

The inaugural concert at Echo Beach with Robyn and Diamond Rings last June was one of the year’s best pop shows, thanks in part to the charming and secludedfeeling outdoor setting. A series of free gigs followed, and now Live Nation is hoping to make the 5,000-capacity beach a mainstay for the 2012 summer season.

The promoter will invest in production infrastructure, more washrooms and food/beverage stands with the goal of attracting young, laid-back and down-toparty types who don’t mind getting sand between their toes – though perhaps not in their designer footwear.

“A lot of people didn’t realize that Echo Beach is actually on sand,” says Live Nation’s Jacob Smid. “Next year I want to have a shoe check: check in your shoes, get a pair of flip-flops and at the end of the night go back and pick up your high heels or $800 New Balances.”

Expect a mix of electronic and hip-hop acts, multi-day events like metal fest Heavy T.O. and big rock-pop acts ill-suited to seated venues like the nearby Molson Amphitheatre. A gig like the Flaming Lips/Spoon’s 2009 Amphitheatre show would be ideal for the new venue, says Smid.

Another spot to watch in 2012 is tiny Queen West space Camera Bar, which recently hosted English folk artist Laura Marling and 100 fans over two intimate shows. “For what she was looking to achieve, it was perfect,” Smid says. KEVIN RITCHIE

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new year’s eve picks

Trip The LighT FanTasTic

w/ Ill-esha, Jacob Cino, Jonah K, Rollin’ Cash and more Centre of Gravity (1300 Gerrard East) Hippy techno blowout.

Kyuss Lives

Cherry Cola’s Rock n’ Rolla (200 Bathurst) Intimate gig by stoner rock survivors.

caTL

Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington) Minimalist blues punk.

happy endings

w/ Gingy, Canblaster, Brenmar, MYD and more Dim Sum King (421 Dundas West) Rowdy banquet-hall dance party.

yes yes y’aLL

w/ special guest MC L.A. Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst) Queer-friendly hip-hop and dancehall.

green veLveT

Footwork (425 Adelaide) Chicago house legend.

sheezer, dJ Ben Fox, BoBBy KimBerLy El Mocambo (464 Spadina) All-girl Weezer cover band.

chronoLogic

w/ special guests Shit La Merde, Wes Allen The Garrison (1197 Dundas West) Dance music from 1890 to 2012.

Love TriangLe

w/ Jokers of the Scene, iDRUM, Soul Proprietor and more Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West) From hand drums to electro beats.

sTaTic

w/ Steve Aoki, Thomas Gold, Mike Toast and more Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East) Electro house mega-party.

The sadies, danieL romano Horseshoe (370 Queen West) Long-running roots rock NYE.

eLLioT Brood, BLacK aces, sunparLour pLayers Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West) Indie folk and alt-country.

LiFeTime

w/ Groove Institute, Lissa Monet, Dirty Dale and more Revival (783 College) Deep house and soulful R&B.

Bump ’n husTLe/FooTprinTs/ garage 416

w/ Mike Tull, Paul E Lopes, Jason Palma, General Eclectic, Blueprint and more Rivoli (332 Queen West) Three funk/house/soul/Latin/disco parties under one roof.

indian handcraFTs, Teenage KicKs, Topanga, The greys Silver Dollar (486 Spadina) Quality local up-and-comers.

dJ sneaK

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West) Chicago filter house kingpin.

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clubs&concerts How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 34, for venue address and phone number.

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website.

Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, December 29 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

HorSeSHoe Back Alley Ringers, Pick Brothers Band, Bon Witteller 9 pm. lee’S PAlAce 5izzlin 6akin, Cano, Kether 9 pm. tHe PAinteD lADy The Cubadors 9 pm. tHe PiSton The Bed, Wildering 10 pm.

PreSS cluB More Please 9 pm. rivoli Mounty Crizto, the Change, Native Smokes 8 pm. rockPile Blue Coupe.

Silver DollAr The Strangers, Streetcats, Non-Stop Girls, Moves 9 pm.

SoutHSiDe JoHnny’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

SuPermArket Token 808 Release Party Vlssonn, Terror Tone.

WHite SWAn R&B Rock Jam.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

ASPettA cAffe Open Mic Nite El Faron 7 pm.

Blue moon Firedance (drum and dance circle)

8 pm.

cAStro’S lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

AlleycAtz James King Band.

Bovine Sex cluB National Velvet, KC & Marz,

DAve’S... on St clAir Uncle Herb’s Open Mic

cAmeron HouSe Fedora Upside Down 10 pm,

emmet rAy BAr Camden Blues (blues rock) 9 pm. glADStone Hotel meloDy BAr Fraser Melvin

DJ Vania.

Corin Raymond 6 pm. clinton’S Gutter Bird For the Birds, DJ Centurion (hard rock) doors 9 pm.

DAkotA tAvern Fort York 7:30 pm.

DrAke Hotel unDergrounD What’s In The Box Music Festival Night Four Juan Atkins, DaKOTA, Donlands & Mortimer, Doldrums, Odonis Odonis, Moon King 8 pm.

DrAke Hotel lounge Weekend Start-Up The Bootknives (rock) doors 10 pm.

Fel mocAmBo Black & White Beads For Beds benefit concert The Damaged Good, Satoshi Saito, DJs Angelitica & Malasuerte Soundsystem doors 8 pm.

FtHe gArriSon Boxing Day Special: Food Bank Benefit OPOPO, Sports, Holy Mount, Soft Copy, This Mess, DJ Metz Tag Team 9 pm.

HAve A greAt morning After ñ featuring the best eggs in the city ñ

(country/folk/blues/rock) 9:30 pm.

Blues Band (blues) 9 pm. grAffiti’S The Grease Marks 8 pm.

HugH’S room Lee Harvey Osmond, Harlan Pepper 8:30 pm. tHe locAl Brian MacMillan. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. unDerDoWn PuB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots/blues) 9 pm.

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Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Air cAnADA centre Trans-Siberian Orchestra

3 and 8 pm.

Dominion on Queen Derek Gray’s Tesseract

8 pm.

Darryl (rocksteady/rock & roll/hip-hop/funk) 7 pm.

AnDy PoolHAll Flave The World DJs Lori J Ward & T Orlando (underground house/tech house) 10 pm.

BlAck moon lounge Sound Directions (electronica/house/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight. gooDHAnDy’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 Holy oAk cAfe Small Brains 10 pm. inSomniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lolABAr DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/R&B). monArcH tAvern Sweetback Vol 15 The Jive Express, MJ Shaps, DJ Voltaire Ramos (underground disco/rare funk/dancefloor jazz/space disco) 9:30 pm. rivoli Pool lounge DJ Plan B (electrobeats/ disco).

SHAlloW groove New Country Thursdays DJ Jonathan Demers 8 pm.

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz JamesKing Band.

ASPettA cAffe Yaqubi Brothers, Sarah Factor (rock/acoustic) 7 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Sid’s Kids, Slander, DJ Vania.

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ster vaudeville) 10 pm.

PArtS & lABour Hotkid, Spitfist, Hate Gang, Greys 10 pm.

Frivoli Fuck New Year’s Show Tin Star Orphans, Zachary Bennett, Fleece Elves (rock) 8 pm. rockPile Destroyer (KISS tribute).

Silver DollAr Meeko Cheech, Trematron, Juiceboxx, the Charming Ruins 9 pm.

SoutHSiDe JoHnny’S Tony ‘Wild T’ Springer & the Spirit (rockin’ blues) 10 pm.

SuPermArket We Are Growling Woods, Chuch, Old Foes, Red Nightfall.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

cAmeron HouSe Kayla Howran 10 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm.

gAte 403 Brian Cober & Asland Gotov Blues

Duo 9 pm.

glADStone Hotel meloDy BAr Marinda &

Solari (jazzy bossa nova) 9 pm.

HigHWAy 61 SoutHern BArBeQue The Little Naturals w/ Chris Caddell 8 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe Soozi Music (folk) 9 pm.

HugH’S room Suzie Vinnick 8:30 pm. lulA lounge Salsa Dance Party Gozadera 9:30 pm.

rePoSADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). unDerDoWn PuB Kevin Myles Wilson (folk/

roots rock) 10 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

gAte 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8

Friday, December 30

new yeAr’s dAy bruncH 10:30am on 189 church st (at Church and Shuter) 416-364-1301 nowlounge.com

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lolA Shitkicker 8 pm. mAPle leAf HouSe Paris Black 9:30 pm. not my Dog Fred Spek’s CaMp CoMbO (hip-

miSSiSSAugA centrAl liBrAry noel ryAn AuDitorium Peggy’s Violin 2 pm. rePoSADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Project Rex 9:30 pm, Alex Goodman

Alice fAzooli’S SQuAre one DJ Other Brother

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Suppliers include St John’s bakery and Rowe Farms.

Birthday Boys doors 9 pm. ñ lee’S PAlAce Tre Leji, Inner City Grooves, the

DAve’S... on St clAir Happy Hour Jazz Chick-

pm, Christopher Simmons Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

SATURDAY DECEMBER

grAffiti’S Jeff Oussoren evening.

HorSeSHoe The Electric Six, Child Bite,

gAte 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9

Quintet 6:30 pm. trAne StuDio Singer’s Den Al St Louis.

and live African music from Kobena Aquaa Harrison…

grAffiti’S Paul Martin Rocks For Sick Kids 5 to

7 pm.

Pre-Party Event The Kings (Switchin’ To Glide musicians). cADillAc lounge Tim Bovaconti.

DorA keogH Jack Marks (roots rock).

DrAke Hotel unDergrounD What’s In The Box Music Festival Night Five: Itzsoweezee Presents Keys N Krates, Tom Wrecks & DeMiggs 11 pm.

Fel mocAmBo New Year’s Eve Is For Losers 20 Amp Soundchild, the Dying Arts, Patrick McCormack 9 pm.

FtHe gArriSon Boxing Day Special: Food Bank Benefit White Suede, the Guest Bedroom, Cave Baby, the Lava & Ash, I.H.A.D. 9 pm.

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rex Leyland Gordon 9:45 pm, The Jivebombers (jump blues) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. ziPPerz/cellBlock Roxxie Teraine’s Broadway Cabaret Roxxie Teraine and Adam Weinmann 7 to 9 pm.5

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

FAnnex Wreckroom Pre NYE Dance Party

10 pm.

BlAck moon lounge Sound Directions (electronica/house/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight.

cAStro’S lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

clinton’S Dance Armstrong (music for win-

ners).

DrAke Hotel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors

11 pm.

FfootWork NYE Warm Up Social Addy,

Nathan Barato, Jay Force, Jonathan Rosa, Andrew McDonnell doors 10 pm. fox & fiDDle mAnSion Sexy Swagg Fridays Suppa Natty, Outcast, DJ Wise Guy. gooDHAnDy’S Pansexual Sex Party DJ Todd Klinck doors 10 pm.5 Hot Box cAfe Big Spliff JodaC & Mike S 7 pm. tHe Hoxton Alex Kenji doors 10 pm.

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inSomniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Ghleon & James St Bass (house/breaks). lAmBADinA Friday Night Expo DJ Red Out (live hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. levAck Block BAck room DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop). levAck Block front room DJ Nerdvana. mArgret Massive Gritty (reggae) 10 pm. tHe PAinteD lADy DJ Phantastic 10 pm. tHe PiSton Shindig DJs Splattermonkey, General Eclectic, Double K (Motown/Stax/soul) 10 pm. rASPutin voDkA BAr Weight Lift DJs Weapon Keys, Dusty Metropolis (funk/funky house/ disco funk). rivoli Pool lounge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro). tHe SAvoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm.

Woo’S lounge Heart Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz doors at 10:30 pm.

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DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE

Bovine sex CluB School For Band Aids DJ

mambo/swing/swoon) 7:30 pm. rex Mikko Hilden 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm.

FdoverCourt house New Year’s Day

DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE

Candy-O.

Saturday, December 31

Gospel Music Dance Party DJ Trevor Hamilton 4-7:30 pm. the PAinted lAdy DJ NV (hip-hop/funk/soul/ rocksteady reggae) 9 pm.

See page 31. Full New Year’s Eve Guide at nowtoronto.com.

Monday, January 2

Sunday, January 1

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

CAstro’s lounge Ronnie Hayward

(rockabilly) 4 pm. ñ FgrAFFiti’s Dave N’ Skeets Annual New Year’s

Day Martini Madness Matinee 4 to 7 pm. southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

glAdstone hotel melody BAr Family

Acoustic Brunch (bluegrass) 9 am to 2 pm. the loCAl Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. suPermArket Freefall Sundays 8 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMEnTAL

FheliConiAn hAll A New Year’s Day Concert

Bovine sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

CrAWFord Mix Fix Mondays (Motown/funk/ dance R&B).

the ossington Ice & Yo (spooky styles). the Piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks, Church 10 pm.

CAstro’s lounge Rockabilly Night 9 pm. grAFFiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 5

rePosAdo Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

WAterFAlls The Lion’s Den (reggae).

horseshoe Shoeless Monday Leonas Sister,

Tuesday, January 3

to 8 pm.

Teen Violence 9 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

the loCAl Bluegrass Mondays Hamstrung

String Band 5 pm. old niCk M Factor Monday Jenny Allen, Cheryl Beatty, Elana Harte. roxton Michael Peter (bluegrass) 9:30 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMEnTAL dominion on queen The Hot Club Of Corktown 8:30 pm.

gAte 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm,

Tom McGill (piano solo) 5 to 8 pm.

The Musicians in Ordinary, Hallie Fishel, John FheliConiAn hAll A New Year’s Day Concert Edwards, Christopher Verrette 2 pm.

The Musicians in Ordinary, Hallie Fishel, John Froy thomson hAll Salute To Vienna: New Edwards, Christopher Verrette 8 pm.

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PeoPle’s ChiCken Advocats Big Band (bop/

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMEnTAL

AlleyCAtz Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci & the Double A Jazz Swing Band. gAte 403 Kelsey McNulty Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. rex Amanda Tosoff Trio 6:30 pm. trAnzAC James McEleney Quartet (jazz) 10 pm.

DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

holy oAk CAFe Partytime, Cry Break, Sarah

Mangle, Laura Mac (pop) 9 pm. horseshoe Nu Music Nite All Dressed, Delta, Jillian Brady 9 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

Annex WreCkroom Drummers In Exile (drum

and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

CAstro’s lounge Quiet Revolutions blueVenus (singer/songwriter showcase) 10 pm. gAte 403 Blues night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm. hot Box CAFe Hotbox Unplugged Open Stage/ Jam EvanB & JasonC 7 pm. the loCAl Massey/Harris. rex Rex Blues Jam Dr Nick & the Roller-

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coasters (blues) 9:30 pm. roxton Union Duke (bluegrass/alt-country) 9:30 pm. the rusty nAil Open Stage Chad Campbell 9 pm. trAnzAC Colette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

Andy PoolhAll 24K Hip-Hop Jam DJ Serious, Kaewonder, DJ Starting From Scratch, Muziklee Inzane, Big Jacks, Mensa, DJ Ariel and others 10 pm.

CrAWFord Drink & Destroy (punk rock). goodhAndy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 rePosAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, January 4 POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

Bovine sex CluB Jacques & the Valdanes.

CAdillAC lounge The Neil Young’uns. the Port Oscar Tango (power pop/rock) 10

pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

CAstro’s lounge Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm.

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gAte 403 Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov (blues duo) 5 to 8 pm. grossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque Sean Pinchin (folk) 7 pm. hirut Fine ethioPiAn Cuisine Gary 17’s Open Stage Pete Otis 8:30 pm. the loCAl David Celia Band. silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass jam) 9 pm. trAnzAC David Woodhead’s Confabulation (alt folk) 7:30 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMEnTAL

ChAlkers PuB Girls Night Out jazz Jam 8 pm. dominion on queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm.

gAte 403 Kurt Nielsen & Richard Whiteman

Jazz Band 9 pm.

nAWlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm.

rex Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra 9:45 pm,

Norbert Botos 6:30 pm. underdoWn PuB Jazz Night 10 pm.

DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE

BrAssAii Les Nuits DJ Undercover (house/hiphop/club anthems).

goodhAndy’s Amplify Wednesdays DJs Sexy Pants & Cesar doors 10 pm.5

hot Box CAFe Hump Day Uncut The Man! (old

school/R&B/hip-hop/dancepop/electro house) 7 pm. the ossington HumbleMania XXXI. rePosAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy.

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Venue Index

Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

AliCe FAzooli’s squAre one 209 Rathburn W (Mississauga). 905281-1721.

AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

Andy PoolhAll 489 College. 416-923-5300.

Annex WreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

AsPettA CAFFe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

BlACk moon lounge 67 Richmond W. 416-603-3100.

Blue moon 725 Queen E. 416-463-8868.

Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

BrAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730.

Brix nAPA vAlley grille 230 Commerce Valley E (Thornhill). 905763-2749.

CAdillAC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717.

CAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

CAstro’s lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272.

ChAlkers PuB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

CoBrA lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004.

CrAWFord 718 College. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dAve’s... on st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. dorA keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. doverCourt house 805 Dovercourt. 416-535-3847. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497.

FootWork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488.

Fox & Fiddle mAnsion 1294 Liverpool. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grAFFiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. heliConiAn hAll 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. hirut Fine ethioPiAn Cuisine 2050 Danforth. holy oAk CAFe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hot Box CAFe 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990. the hoxton 69 Bathurst. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. lAmBAdinA 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. lee’s PAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. levACk BloCk 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. the loCAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lolA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lolABAr 1173 Dundas E. lulA lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAPle leAF house 2749 Lake Shore W. 416-255-2558. mArgret 2952 Dundas W. 416-762-3373. mississAugA CentrAl liBrAry 301 Burnhamthorpe W (Mississauga). 905-615-3500. monArCh tAvern 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833. nAWlins JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-595-1958. not my dog 1510 Queen W. old niCk 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. the ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. the PAinted lAdy 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239.

PArts & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

PeoPle’s ChiCken 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931. the Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. the Port 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270.

Press CluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. rAsPutin vodkA BAr 780 Queen E. 416-469-3737. rePosAdo 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roCkPile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. roxton 379 Harbord. 416-535-8181. roy thomson hAll 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. the rusty nAil 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. the sAvoy 1166 Queen W. shAlloW groove 559 College. 416-944-8998. silver dollAr 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. suPermArket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. trAne studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. underdoWn PuB 263 Gerrard E. 416-927-0815.

WAterFAlls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666.

White sWAn 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

Woo’s lounge 10 Dundas E, 4th floor. 416-977-9966. ziPPerz/CellBloCk 72 Carlton. 416-921-0066.

books forecast 2012

By SUSAN G. COLE Ecoholic gets personal Canada’s pulled out of Kyoto, so NOW’s Ecoholic, Adria Vasil, is working harder than ever. She’s taken on everything from home improvements to eating local in her weekly column and two popular books. Now she moves into the world of health and beauty with Ecoholic Body (Vintage), which she calls the ultimate earthfriendly guide to eating healthy and looking good. That means tips on supplements, shampoos, clothing, cosmetics and just about everything else you can think of. Look for a launch in mid-April.

Paper trail One of last year’s big industry events was the publication of Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds on paper made of straw – a first for Canada. Promoted

by the enviro group Canopy, the process makes paper out of the chaff of wheat and flax harvested in the Prairies. It could spell the end of logging for the purpose of producing paper – there’s that much chaff left on the ground. Look for more books on straw paper in 2012.

Giller winner returns

those who have to drive to the waterfront. Construction at Harbourfront has put its on-site lot out of commission for two years. Last time I talked to International Festival of Authors director Geoffrey Taylor, he promised me the lot will be back in commission for IFOA’s 2012 instalment next fall.

That can only be good for the fest.

Linden MacIntyre scored big with his 2009 Giller Prizewinning The Bishop’s Man, about deceit inside the Church. He mines some of the same territory in Why Men Lie (Random House), about a woman who survives a troubled upbringing, achieves independence in middle age, but then makes a risky personal choice. The book streets in March.

Blondes’ ambition

Parking’s the ticket

Rumour has it that Luminato’s literary component will feature authors from both sides of the 49th parallel talking about the complex relationship between Canada and the U.S.

If you live downtown, Harbourfront Centre is easily accessible by bike or TTC. But the arts complex serves the GTA and really needs a parking lot for

We were big fans of Emily Schultz’s breakout novel, Heaven Is Small, about a man who dies and goes to that big romance novel publishing house in the sky. We’re glad to hear she’s finally back, this time with The Blondes (Doubleday) – part thriller, part satire of our obsession with beauty – about a disease overtaking New York City that transforms fair-haired women into killers. Given Schultz’s penchant for pointed parody, it promises to be a winner.

Coming in May.

Border Crossing

art forecast 2012 No surprise that the visual art world continues to be a locus of experimentation and fascinating new hybrids. Here’s what to look for – and wonder about – in the coming year.

By FRAN SCHECHTER Outside the box Artist-created apps and interactive websites are becoming ends in themselves rather than add-ons to gallery shows. David Hockney paints on an iPad, but will emerging artists be able to make a career of it? Will QR code squares replace wall text in museums?

DEBRA FRIEDMAN

Press play Don’t enjoy sitting on a box to watch video? Many artists post videos online.

Gallery/bar Art and Drinks, a pop-up venue where you can converse and imbibe while watching art video, is set to close at the end of January, but the idea could catch on. Meanwhile, video installation and art cinema are converging: many directors do both, films like The Tree Of Life blur the boundaries, and the NFB supports installation artists.

Fight the cuts

All mine

Instead of donating art to museums, collectors now want their own galleries where they call the shots. Type Books owner Samara Walbohm and investment capitalist Joe Shlesinger follow in the footsteps of Ydessa Hendeles, François Pinault and Eli Broad with their recently opened Scrap Metal, in the BloorLansdowne area.

Though private museums can provide opportunities for innovation, they may also further impoverish struggling public institutions.

A retrospective of the late Will Munro comes to the Art Gallery of York U.

NOW Ecoholic Adria Vasil’s upcoming book puts the focus on living healthy and looking good.

If the mayor’s proposed cuts to the arts and to the Toronto Arts Council go through, artist-run centres and public galleries face reductions in programming. Write your councillor to oppose the cuts.

Coming in 2012 The Will Munro retrospective at Art Gallery of York University and 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month at Justina M. Barnicke and Georgia Scherman Projects, curated

by Pamela Edmonds and Sally Frater, both in January; Picasso at the AGO in May; the opening of a photography exhibition space at the Ryerson Image Centre in the fall.

DUSTIN RABIN

We’ve gazed at the stars and peered at our crystal ball so we can highlight the books, trends and happenings we’re looking forward to in 2012.

MUST-SEE SHOWS CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Christmas group show,

to Jan 14. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

CLINT ROENISCH Painting: Dorian FitzGerald, to Jan 3. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593.

CORKIN GALLERY Painting: Ramón Serrano, to Jan 15. 55 Mill. 416-979-1980.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Video/sculpture: Brendan Fernandes and Young & Giroux, to Jan 7. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

DRAKE HOTEL That Was Now group show, to Feb 6. 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

FIRST CANADIAN PLACE Painting: Diana Menzies and Nada Sesar-Raffay, to Jan 13.

1 First Canadian Pl. fcpevents.com.

GALLERY 1313 Emerging Artist Show, Jan 4-22. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

G GALLERY Architecture: Adrian Blackwell and Jane Hutton, to Dec 31 (Fri-Sun). 134 Ossington. 647-340-3998, sidecentre.com.

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Painting: Nicole Collins, to Jan 21. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Pink Pearl group show, to Jan 8. Textiles: Amanda McCavour, to Jan 29. Textiles: Hard Twist 6 – Obsession

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO Chagall And The Russian AvantGarde, to Jan 15 ($25, stu $16.50). General Idea, to Jan 1. Francisco Goya y Lucientes and James Gillray, to Apr 15. Songs Of The Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, to Apr 29. Jack Chambers, to May 13. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art; The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES A World Of Music: 90 Seasons With The TSO, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Designers In The Classroom, to Jan 17 (pwyc). Design Exchange Awards, to Feb 26. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Beatriz Olano and

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Magdalena Fernández, to Jan 28. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART The Tsars’ Cabinet: 200 Years Of Russian Decorative Arts, to Jan 8. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN In Focus: Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier; Lomen Brothers, to Jan 8. Jack Chambers, to Jan 15. Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 31. $15, stu/srs $12, free Oct 1-2. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA Ineffable Plasticity: The Experience Of Being Human; Human/Nature, to Dec 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Hyper Spaces group show, to Mar 4 (Centennial Square, 120 Navy).

Chris Kline, to Feb 19 (Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E, Oakville). 905-844-4402.

group show, to Jan 29. 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Moon Circle Void; Likeness; Material Explorations group shows; painting/photos/prints: Suzanne Nacha, Astrid Ho and others, to Dec 31. Too Tall? group show, to Dec 31. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

JOSEPH D CARRIER GALLERY Inspired By Spoleto group show; painting: Jeff Jackson, to Jan 23. 901 Lawrence W. 416-789-7011.

OLGA KORPER Photos: Barbara Steinman, to Jan 21. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220.

PEAK GALLERY Painting: Gary Michael Dault, to Jan 14. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108.

RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Jean Bridge, Jan 4-28. 401 Richmond W #115.

416-504-5654.

STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Staff & Friends (benefit for Toronto Humane Society), Jan 2-29. 255 Bremner. 416-362-2337.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Alex Webb, to Jan 14. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Grace Kelly: From Movie Star To Princess, to Jan 22 ($15). Otherworldly: The Art Of Canadian Costume Design, to Mar 31. 350 King W. 416-599-8433.

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THE POWER PLANT Coming After; Stan Doug-

las, to Mar 4. $6, stu/srs $3, free Wed 5-8 pm.

231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM ICC: David Hockney, to Jan 1. The Kingston Prize, to Jan 29. Maya: Secrets Of Their Ancient World, to Apr 9($25, stu/srs $22.50, Fri after 4:30 pm $19, stu/srs $17). The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM GRAFT: Linking Textiles, Art And Science, to Jan 22. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, to Feb 12. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Deconstructed: Works From The Permanent Collection, to May 12. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-4779511.

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stage forecast 2012 Litmus Theatre’s Matchbox Macbeth proved that intimate shows pay off.

Toronto’s The Normal Heart was as good as, if not better than, New York’s.

Mr. Marmalade was a sweet success here.

If you can make it there...

What’s bound to show up From intimate spaces to diverse audiences, here are trends to look for in the new year

By GLENN SUMI and JON KAPLAN

Up close and personal In 2011, some dozen indie productions went up in unusual venues where, at times, you could reach out and touch the actors.

Red One Theatre took over two galleries, a warehouse space and, most excitingly, historic Campbell House, the last with a version of the many-sided Rashomon story. Litmus Theatre remounted its electric production of Matchbox Macbeth in a backyard garage, while Rogue Theatre took over a back-alley gallery with Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty.

Why are these shows so exciting? When actors get up close with an audience, the intimacy increases a performance’s visceral, physical qualities. You can watch the shifting flicker of a character’s gaze, a twitch of the head, a suggestive seduction in detail. You get the nuanced perspective that a camera’s lens can offer, combined with the intensity of a live performance.

There’s another kind of excitement, too, in the possibility of a misstep that’d change the whole show. In the LaBute, the two male characters had a fight on the narrow stage, with viewers sitting on either side of the action; one wrong step and the actors could’ve been in the audience’s lap.

More diverse audiences Besides being great theatre and providing a terrific role for Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Ins Choi’s Fringe hit Kim’s Convenience proved that if you build it, they will come. Choi targeted Korean-Canadian audiences, and they (and other Asian Canadians) packed out the Bathurst Street Theatre as well as the Toronto Centre for the Arts during the brief extension. Now that Soulpepper’s launching its 2012 season with an expanded version of the play, a terrific cross-cultural pollination may occur. On the other hand, rumour has it that Studio 180’s excellent revival of The Normal Heart didn’t attract the queer community although it ran at Buddies in the village. So finding the right audience can be tricky.

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... you’ll show up everywhere? That seems to be the case with plays and musicals that do well on Broadway and then end up here. And we’re not just talking about touring productions.

Shows like The Normal Heart, Exit The King and Red were produced here shortly after becoming hits in New York City.

Often the local version compares unfavourably to the star-studded NYC one, exceptions being The Normal Heart, Nightwood/Obsidian’s Ruined and SummerWorks’ refreshing production of Mr. Marmalade.

The trend’s continuing with Acting Up/Obsidian’s musical Caroline, Or Change in January.

3-D in theatre

Tweetin’ seats

Of course, live theatre and dance are the ultimate 3-D experience. But two films that screened in 2011 convinced us that you can enhance the experience. The Royal Opera House’s 3-D Carmen and the Wim Wenders documentary Pina both made you feel like you were right onstage with the action. The question is, if you can see “shows” at a movie theatre, will you still pay to see the thing live?

We’ve all seen idiots who continue to use their cellphones during shows. And many theatre companies, wanting to woo new audiences, are exploring social media and performance. But in 2011 the innovative theatre company Praxis tried an experiment, asking certain people to text and tweet during a show.

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em? Maybe at their next show they’ll hand out candy that we can noisily unwrap, too.

Kim’s Convenience opened the door for new theatre audiences.

Jake Epstein says Occupy supporters will relate to American Idiot.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DISTILLERY HISTORIC DISTRICT

PAUL SUN-HYUNG LEE, INS CHOI

MUSICAL PREVIEW

His Day has come

Degrassi’s Jake Epstein joins the tour of Green Day musical By JORDAN BIMM AMERICAN IDIOT by Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool and Michael Mayer, directed by Mayer, with Jake Epstein, Van Hughes, Scott J. Campbell and Gabrielle McClinton. Presented by DanCap at the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge Street). Opens tonight (Thursday, December 29) and runs to January 15, TuesdaySaturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday, Saturday-Sunday (and December 29-30) 2 pm, January 8 at 7 pm. $62-$180. 416644-3665.

sometimes rock ’n’ roll dreams do come true. Just ask Jake Epstein.

The first rock concert he ever attended was Green Day’s at Mississauga’s Hershey Centre back in 2001. Now, 10 years later, he’s in the touring company of American Idiot, the multimillion-dollar Broadway show based on the band’s music.

“It’s totally a pinch-yourself moment for me,” says the Toronto native, best known for playing troubled rocker Craig Manning on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He’s one of four Canadians joining the cast for the 16city North American tour, which starts in Toronto and runs through July.

The musical, which premiered in 2009 and hit Broadway in 2010, is based on the California punk band’s eponymous 2004 concept record,

which sold 16 million copies, won a Grammy and thrust the mid-career trio back into the spotlight.

Like the record, the musical follows the fortunes of a kid named Johnny who hates the comfortable confines of suburbia and heads to the big city in search of new experiences. The musical version adds two of Johnny’s friends, Tunny and Will, into the mix. Tunny joins the army and fights in Iraq, but Will (Epstein) discovers his girlfriend is pregnant and decides to stay put in the burbs.

“I’m the only character who doesn’t leave the stage for the entire show,” laughs Epstein about director Michael Mayer’s decision to have his character’s monotony constantly on display.

“While stuff’s happening to Johnny in the city, I’m just sitting on this couch at home. I have ‘couch choreography’ through the whole show so the audience can watch my condition worsen over time. It’s funny, but also pretty realistic and tragic.”

At first glance, DIY punk ethos and Broadway extravagance might seem incompatible, but Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the album as a rock opera and cites musicals like West Side Story, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jesus Christ Superstar as inspirations. Epstein goes a step further, calling the show

“punk opera.”

“This show is fast and loud, just like punk. It clocks in at an hour and a half, so – like a two-minute punk song – we trim the fat and get right to the point. It has that exciting feeling that anything can happen. Punk ups the stakes more than rock music.”

Though the show’s themes may be explicitly American, Epstein feels that Toronto audiences will identify with its depiction of political frustration, protest and mistrust of authority.

“It’s a really interesting time to be doing this show, because it resonates with all of the Occupy movements.

People realized that the situation on Wall Street is fucked up and unfair, and started this protest movement.

That feeling of frustration, that something’s wrong and there needs to be a change, is a big part of the show.”

On Broadway, Armstrong surprised Green Day fans by joining the cast for a number of performances, but Epstein is tight-lipped about whether the rock star will crash any of the tour shows.

“I would love it. I’m hoping. With this show, don’t rule anything out!”3 stage@nowtoronto.com

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HIT OF THE 2011 FRINGE FESTIVAL

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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-​Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook F= festive/seasonal event

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Theatre,​NOW​Magazine,​189​Church,​ Toronto​M5B​1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Opening AmericAN idiot by Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike

Dirnt, Tré Cool and Michael Mayer (Dancap Productions). Boyhood friends search for meaning in a post-9/11 world in this musical based on Green Day’s 2004 album (see related story, page 37). Opens Dec 29 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm, plus Dec 29-30 at 2 pm & Jan 8 at 7 pm. $62-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. the ANt & the GrAsshopper by Ted Hallett and the Company (Cow Over Moon). This interactive, musical show for ages 4 and up is based on an Aesop fable. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 8, 2012, Wed-Sun 2 pm, plus Thu-Fri 11 am. $15, stu/srs $10. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. 905-510-8210, cowovermoon.ca. disco Fever (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a dance party musical show. Opens Dec 31 and runs to Jan 21, 2012, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (includes meal); New Year’s Eve Gala $70-$125. 343 Evans. fpp.org.

LiviNG With heNry by Christopher Wilson (Beyond Boundaries/Next Stage Theatre Festival). This musical drama explores the fear, complications and realities of living with HIV/ AIDS today. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, see website for schedule. $12-$15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

LovesexmoNey by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A woman

sells her virginity online in this comedy-drama about intimacy in the information age. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, see website for schedule. $12-$15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. morro ANd JAsp: Go BAke yourseLF by Heather Marie Annis, Byron Laviolette and Amy Lee (Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). The Fringe-fest famous clown sisters go on a culinary adventure in this new show.

Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, see website for schedule. $10, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Upstairs Bar. 416-9661062, fringetoronto.com.

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A-Go-Go by Allison Beula (Allison Beula Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A live band accompanies this comedic play about beach party films of the 60s. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, see website for schedule. $12-$15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-9661062, fringetoronto.com.

A tiNy piece oF LANd by Joni Browne-Walders and Mel Weiser (TEATRON Theatre). A recently widowed American makes a tumultuous trip to Israel to visit his estranged brother. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mats Sun 2 pm (Jan 4 preview at 1 pm). $31-$48, stu/srs $26-$30, preview $19.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416733-0545, teatrontheatre.com. tomAsso’s pArty by Jules Lewis (Rooftop Creations/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Preparing for a party exposes a couple’s tempestuous and comic relationship. Opens Jan 4 and runs to Jan 15, 2012, see website for schedule. $12-$15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

One-Nighters

ALice iN WoNderBrA (Red Sandcastle Theatre). This NYE party features a performance of Rosemary Doyle’s naughty panto play, midnight champagne, DJ dance party and more.

Dec 31 at 9 pm. $100, couple $180. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

BrAvissimo! operA’s GreAtest hits (Attila Glatz Concert Productions). The Opera Canada Symphony performs popular arias, duets and overtures with soloists Sabina Cvilak, Aris Argiris and others. Dec 31 at 7 pm. $55-$145. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. masseyhall.com.

A Gypsy’s FANtAsy NeW yeAr’s eve (Toronto Operetta Theatre). Dinner at the Hot House Café is followed by a performance of The Gypsy Princess and a champagne party to ring in the new year. Dec 31 from 5 pm. $145 plus performance ticket. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com. murder At tWiLiGht NeW yeAr’s eve mystery GALA (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner The-

atre). Modern-day vampires, old-school mon-

Richard​Lee​(left),​Sanjay​Talwar​and​Lisa​Karen​Cox​put​a​unique​spin​on​their​wise​men​in​The​Story. sters and humans try to coexist in this murder mystery plus dinner and dance party. Dec 31, doors 6:30 pm. $129-$169. 2026 Yonge. 416486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

F 3peNNy christmAs coNcert (Small Wooden Shoe). Join in singing or just listen to songs from Brecht & Weill’s Threepenny Opera. Dec 29, doors 8 pm. 3 cents. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. smallwoodenshoe.org.

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ALice iN BLuNderLANd by Rosemary Doyle

(Red Sandcastle Theatre). This musical comedy pantomime puts a twist on the Lewis Carroll classic. Runs to Jan 7, 2012, Dec 26-31 Mon-Fri 7 pm, Sat 3 pm. Jan 1-7 Tue-Sat 7 pm, mats Mon and Sat 3 pm. $25, stu/srs $15, child $10. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

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The Princess And The Pea gets a retelling in this family-friendly puppet play. To Jan 1, 2012 daily at 2 pm, Dec 29-30 at 4:30 pm. $25, srs/ stu $20; New Year’s Day show + gala $40. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416531-1827, puppetmongers.com.

FdisNey oN ice: 100 yeArs oF mAGic (Feld Entertainment). More than 60 Disney characters bring stories to life in this family ice show.

Runs to Jan 1, 2012, daily: Dec 24-30 and Jan 1 at 4 pm, plus Dec 26-31 at noon. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416-870-8000, disneyonice.com. the Gypsy priNcess by Imre Kálmán (Toronto Operetta Theatre). Hungarian czardas and Viennese waltzes are featured in this romantic operetta. Runs to Jan 8, 2012, Fri-Sat and Wed 8 pm, mat Jan 8 at 2 pm. $66-$95. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. torontooperetta.com. hAir by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot (Mirvish). This touring

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production of Public Theater’s revival presents a strong argument for it as a musical classic.

There’s only a loose narrative about dodging the Vietnam War draft, and little character development, but who cares when you’ve got songs as catchy as Let The Sun Shine In, Easy To Be Hard and Good Morning Starshine, all delivered with energy, charisma and intelligence by the hard-working cast. They spread their timely message of love and peaceful protest to the audience, often cavorting up the aisles and even into seats, and inviting you up at the end to rock out Runs to Dec 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 2 pm; see website for additional days and times. $35-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNN (GS)

Joseph ANd the AmAziNG techNicoLor dreAmcoAt by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (Lower Ossington Theatre). This musical reinvents the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. Runs to Dec 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $45$60, stu $20. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

FA mAGicAL time oF yeAr (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a holiday musical about kindness, peace and love. Runs to Dec 30, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. mAry poppiNs by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman (Mirvish/Disney Theatrical Productions/Cameron Mackintosh).

A breathtaking spectacle, this big-budget Disney musical brings to life all the songs and magic of the original film. Picture-perfect as the mysterious nanny, Rachel Wallace impresses by singing, dancing and... um, believably flying. Runs to Jan 8, 2012, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm, see website for other dates. $38-$185. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin). Solomon performs his solo show about growing up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family. Runs to Feb 26, 2012, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51.50-$56. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. italianjewish.ca.

FpArFumerie by Miklós László (Soulpepper). Soulpepper’s revival of this affectionate, old-world romantic comedy follows the stressed-out staff of a Budapest cosmetics shop during the Christmas rush.

Solid acting, clever directing and a great set make this heartwarming love story a holiday classic. Runs to Dec 31, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) piNkALicious, the musicAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. Runs to Jan 8, 2012, Dec 31 and Jan 8 at 1 and 3 pm. $30, child $25.

City Playhouse Theatre, 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. 905-882-7469.

QuidAm (Cirque du Soleil). A young girl escapes boredom through a world of imagination in this circus show featuring aerial arts, dance, music and more. Runs to Dec 30, Thu-Fri 3:30 & 7:30 pm. $50-$100, stu/srs/ child/military $40-$85.50. Ricoh Coliseum, 100 Princes’ Blvd. 416-870-8000, cirquedusoleil.com/quidam. seussicAL by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Young People’s Theatre). Based on several Dr. Seuss works, including Horton

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Hears A Who and Horton Hatches An Egg, this lively musical is great family entertainment, despite a dip in energy near the end. Director Alan MacInnis’s production features some first-rate performers, including George Masswohl as Horton and Damien Atkins as a charming Cat in the Hat. Runs to Dec 30, TueFri 11 am & 2 pm. $15-$20. 165 Front E. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) Fthe story by Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus). A reimagined version of the Nativity story has the audience following Mary, Joseph, Gabriel, the Three Wise Men and Herod to different locations in the Brick Works. The show is full of humour and affection, thanks to Ross’s clown-inspired script, Jennifer Brewin’s direction and the talented actors. Dress warmly; the hour-long show is all outdoors. Runs to Dec 30, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, child $10. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. 416-504-7529, theatrecolumbus.ca. NNNN (JK) 2 piANos 4 hANds by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt (Mirvish). Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s cozy, clever 2P4H still has the thing that endeared itself to audiences fifteen years ago: the charming writer/performers making it all look easy, even when it isn’t Runs to Jan 5, 2012, see website for schedule. $49-$69. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna)

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Nicholas Hune-Brown (Ross Petty Productions).

When a snowstorm carries the Toronto-dwelling Dorothy (Elicia Mackenzie) away in a blue bin, her destination isn’t so much over the rainbow as overseas – down under Australia.

While no musical number is a real standout in this holiday panto, the wild variety and funky footwork on the Yellow Brick Road makes it lots of fun. Runs to Jan 6, 2012, Tue-Sat 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for other dates). $27-$85. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge.

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dance listings F = festive/seasonal event

Opening

Fthe NutcrAcker, A cANAdiAN trAditioN Ballet Jörgen presents the holiday

classic, choreographed by Bengt Jörgen.

Dec 30 at 2 and 7 pm. $41-$46, stu $39.

Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre. 905-305-7469, balletjorgen.ca.

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Fthe NutcrAcker The National Ballet of Canada presents James Kudelka’s 1995 version of this evergreen seasonal classic. Runs to Jan 3, 2012, see website for dates and times. $38-$133.50. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, thenutcracker.ca.

Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $50, dinner + show $88. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents 2011 New Year’s Eve Bash w/ Pete Zedlacher, Johnny Gardhouse and Freddy Proia. Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $40, dinner + show $78.

70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents 2011 New Year’s Eve Bash w/ Ian Sirota, Darren Frost and Bryan Hatt. Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $40, dinner + show $78. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga.

416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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THE MIRACLE ON MERCER STREET See Thu 29.

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Monday, January 2 THE SECOND CITY’S DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REVUE See Thu 29.

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comedy listings How to find a listing

Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue.

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Comedy,​NOW​Magazine,​189​Church,​ Toronto​M5B​1Y7. Include title, producer, comics, brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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plus Fri late show 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, December 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 29.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 29.

THE MIRACLE ON MERCER STREET See Thu 29.

THE SECOND CITY’S DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REVUE See Thu 29.

WITB COMEDY BLOW OUT What’s In The Box Festival presents Keith Pedro, ñ Mark Little, Ben Miner, Jon Steinberg, De-

siree Lavoy and host Dan Galea, followed by a DJ party. 8 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, thedrakehotel.ca.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 29.

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ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Andy Pitz, Ali Hassan and host Casey XXXXXX 00-00 2011 Corbin.

NOW To Dec 30, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm. $10-$12. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne.

647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECTACULAR Absolute Comedy presents Andy

Pitz, Ali Hassan and host Casey Corbin. 8 pm buffet, 10 pm show. $40 ($60 w/ buffet).

2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) Second City presents its ñ latest revue, a high-energy, tons-of-laughs

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show that gets a big jolt of energy from four new writer/performers, a bold set and an amplified sound system. The writing is solid, but the performers sharpen each scene with their physicality, especially newcomer Alastair Forbes, a tall, lanky clown who’s unafraid of looking silly. A couple of political sketches hit their targets, and some very long sequences pay off nicely. But the funniest scenes involve a tech-challenged mom bribing her son and a surreal baseball sketch that defies time and place. Wed-Thu 8 pm, Fri 8 & 10:30 pm, Sat 7 & 10 pm (special performance & champagne toast), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15; New Year’s Eve $55 (dinner & show $111). 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE Groove Bar presents open-mic comedy w/ host Kris Bonaparte.

9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 29.

LIVE FROM GERRARD... IT’S NEW YEAR’S EVE Projection Booth presents comedy Mauladin and hosts Sandra Battaglini and Phil Luzo, plus a champagne toast and more.

Doors 8 pm, comedy at 10 pm. $30-$40.

1035 Gerrard E. guestlistapp.com/ events/82353.

THE MIRACLE ON MERCER STREET See Thu 29.

NEW YEAR’S EVE COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA Massey Hall presents Steve Patñ terson, Ryan Belleville, Claire Brosseau, Jay

Brown, Frankie ‘Trixx’ Agyemang, Graham Chittenden, Kyle Radke, Darrin Rose and host Andrea Martin. 7:30 pm. $39.50-$59.50. 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents 2011 New Year’s Eve Bash w/ Michael Gelbart, Bryan O’Gorman and Allyson Smith.

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THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment and Bite TV present the Short Form Richards in their monthly show w/ Touch My Stereotype, Richard Lett, Adam Downey and host Arthur Simeon, plus post-show karaoke w/ Jason Rolland. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com.

OPEN MIC COMEDY AT THE PORT Jon Hyatt presents a weekly open-mic comedy show with musical guests. 9 pm. Free. The Port, 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270.

THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS

Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents Two Weird Ladies, She Said What, Pink Slip, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Matt Shury and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Wednesday, January 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Carrie Gaetz, Wes Zaharuk, Camille Cote, Guy Alaimo, Paul McCallum and Peter Fulton. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS Joel Buxton, Adrian Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 29.

HARD TIMES COMEDY LOUNGE Impulsive En-

tertainment and Bite TV present a comedy mashup w/ Vest of Friends, Jessica Fitzpatrick, a Classy Affair, Keven Soldo and host Fraser Young. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com.

THE WIN-JESTER BUCKET OF COMEDY Winchester Kitchen & Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Michael McLean. 9 pm.

Free. 51A Winchester. winchesterkitchen. com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Christina Walkinshaw. To Jan 8, Wed-Sun (call/see website for times). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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movies forecast 2012 Pixar’s Brave has a lot to prove in 2012.

Right on target

In an industry where the only constants are that Nicolas Cage will always do that thing with his eyebrows and Mike Myers’s career cannot be ended by conventional means, predictions are pointless. That said, here’s what I expect to see on the movie landscape in 2012, based on what happened in 2011. By NORMAN WILNER Hollywood deathwatch Expect to see more industry hand-wringing over fluctuating box-office numbers, since everyone accepts the idea that megaplex attendance is dropping due to Netflix streaming, iTunes rentals, on-demand cable services and the terrifying spectre of internet piracy. What’s really happening, as far as I can tell, is the further evolution of the DVD principle: audiences are unwilling to pay big-screen, big-sound prices to see a mid-level release they’ll be able to enjoy at home, but they’ll still troop out to see the latest Transformers or Pirates Of The Caribbean – or, god help us, Breaking Dawn Part 2. The only thing that’s changed is that the window between a film’s theatrical bow and its availability for home viewing has shrunk to weeks rather than months, giving smaller films even less time to make money at the Scotiamount.

Expect Midnight In Paris to spawn bad imitators.

Pixar humbled Sure, Cars 2 made money, but it didn’t make a lot – certainly not enough for Pixar to be able to shrug off the negative reviews and middling audience reaction. And for the first time, the studio saw genuine artistic competition from Paramount’s Rango, Sony’s Arthur Christmas, Disney’s Winnie The Pooh and DreamWorks’ Kung-Fu Panda 2 and The Adventures Of Tintin all opening in a single year.

This means Pixar’s next release, Brave, had better be spectacular. (The trailer seems awfully promising.)

Count on John Carter to bring in box office.

Go big or go home – literally John Carter. Wrath Of The Titans. The Avengers. The Amazing Spider-Man. The Dark Knight Rises. Prometheus. Men In Black III. The first half of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. If you thought 2011 was big on monster-sized event pictures, well, 2012 is going even bigger, as gargantuan 3-D/IMAX/smell-o-rama productions that demand big-screen scale (see above) become the best possible way for studios to see a return on their investments.

Game changers

Niche marketing One small movie proved remarkably successful at the box office last year: Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris, which rode a wave of supportive reviews to become the biggest hit of his directorial career, grossing $55 million in its North American run and doing even better overseas. (Of course, Transformers 3: The One That Doesn’t Blow Goats made more than that in its first two days of release, but we’re talking about entirely different markets here.) Distributors will therefore be looking for “the next Midnight In Paris” at every film festival from Sundance to TIFF, even though such a film would only be a shabby copy of Allen’s melancholy time-travel fantasy.

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The digital revolution extends beyond cameras and editing equipment. With so many screens equipped for digital projection, it’s now possible to distribute a movie entirely by yourself, outside the system, as Kevin Smith demonstrated with Red State last year. Of course, he did it by taking the movie on the road himself, introducing the film and doing his usual epic Q&A sessions afterward, and charging $50 to $80 for a ticket. An unknown filmmaker would have no chance at succeeding with that model.

But the comedian Louis C.K. unwittingly opened the door for viable non-theatrical distribution when he put his 2011 stand-up special Live At The Beacon Theater online for a flat fee of $5. No personal appearances, no exorbitant tickets; just the special, in HD or standard definition, downloadable directly from C.K. for five bucks. A newbie director who did the same thing might not make millions, but if the movie was any good and the right blogs or critics took notice, who knows how many people might check it out?

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

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ñTHE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

sequel. 97 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Michel Hazanavicius) is a stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. In 1927 Hollywood, silent film star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanavicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening the familiar narrative with a slight edge that should satisfy contemporary tastes. John Goodman and James Cromwell fit beautifully into secondary roles, and Bejo is winning as the ambitious ingenue, but it’s Cannes best-actor winner Dujardin who shows the widest range as the glamorous matinee idol who’s not even upstaged by his acrobatic dog. 100 min. NNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

(Steven Spielberg) is the first “performance capture” movie that doesn’t look like it’s populated by wall-eyed zombies. The ripCAFÉ DE FLORE (Jean-Marc Vallée) ping adventure introduces French cartoonfinds writer/director Vallée returning ist Hergé’s boy journalist (voiced by Jamie to the fluid, intuitive filmmaking that made Bell), his faithful terrier, Snowy, and the him a sensation with C.R.A.Z.Y. Café De boozy but noble Captain Haddock (Andy Flore plays out a complex, time-jumping Serkis) to a new generation. They’re solving narrative involving a present-day Montreal a mystery involving model ships, a shady father (Kevin Parent) in the throes of a midman (Daniel Craig) and pirate gold, among life crisis and the mother (Vanessa Paradis) other things, but really it’s just an excuse of a Down syndrome child in 1969 Paris. for Spielberg to craft a series of amazingly Parent’s character is a DJ, and that’s the role ambitious action sequences, one of which is Vallée assumes as a filmmaker, tracking as complex as the great truck chase in Raidpowerful emotional beats against themes ers Of The Lost Ark. Without the restrictions sampled from Krzysztof Kieslowski, Nicolas of a physical shoot, the “camera” can spin Roeg and early Denis Villeneuve. Some above, below and all around the chase as it people are going to hate it; I found it plays out, with John Williams’s rousing bracing, daring and entirely invigorating. A score and some impressive 3-D effects addword of advice: when the credits start rolling extra punch. It’s thrilling and, incidenting, remain seated. Subtitled. 120 min. ally, a much more satisfying follow-up to NNNNN (NW) Spielberg’s original Indiana Jones trilogy Cumberland 4 than that thing with the crystal skulls. 108 CARNAGE (Roman Polanski) turns min. NNNN (NW) Yasmina Reza’s play God Of Carnage 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton into a vividly cinematic endurance test, as Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, two sets of parents (Jodie Foster and John Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) Grande - Steeles, Grande face off in a Brooklyn - Yonge, Queensway, apartment over a fight Rainbow Market between their sons. ConSquare, Rainbow PromEXPANDED REVIEWS ciliation turns to friction, enade, Rainbow Woodnowtoronto.com friction to aggression, bine, SilverCity Fairview, and aggression explodes SilverCity Mississauga, into rage; allegiances shift and mutate, and SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge supportive marriages fracture as the argu& Dundas 24 ment reconfigures along gender lines. FosALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPter and Waltz deliver the most compelling WRECKED (Mike Mitchell) places the performances – Foster whipping herself Chipmunks on a desert island, where into a righteous fury at any provocation, they’re accompanied by former SNL player Waltz cheerfully doing most of the provokJenny Slate and series villain David Cross. ing – though Winslet has her moments as Preschoolers might enjoy the slapstick in well. Reilly’s natural affability works this castaway comedy, but others will find against him in a couple of key scenes, but this high-pitched squeakquel unbearable. he’s by no means weak. Not necessarily 87 min. N (Phil Brown) something you’d call a holiday delight, but a 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton damn fine little picture. 79 min. NNNN (NW) Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, THE DARKEST HOUR (Chris Gorak) feels like Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande a third-rate Stephen King movie of the Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, week, but lacks any discernible plot, characRainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenter or ideas – ya know, things that actually ade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Themake those MOWs worth watching. A atre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Missishandful of hot, young (mostly American) sauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale tourists in Moscow witness an invasion by ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (Sarah Smith) is invisible aliens who instantly eat up every the best all-ages Christmas movie bit of electrical energy (hence the title) and since Elf. As they’ve done since the days of reduce living things to atoms. After coming Wallace & Gromit, Aardman’s animators out of hiding, the kids try to avoid the lure us in with clever jokes and ingenious aliens, who conveniently light up electrical visuals, and then sucker-punch us by revealdevices when they’re near, and get to the ing unexpected emotional depths. And American Embassy. What they expect to Bryony the wrapping elf deserves her own

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find there isn’t clear, but nothing else is either, including what the aliens are doing with the power. The CG effects, dialogue and acting are laughable, and there’s no variety in the deaths-by-pulverization.

Some subtitles. 89 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Alexander Payne) stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian lawyer trying to cope with his wife’s impending death from a brain injury, figure out how to relate to his two young daughters (Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him before her accident.

Payne’s first feature since Sideways treads the same prickly, seriocomic ground, focusing on a man who’s not quite as equipped to deal with himself as he believes himself to be. The subject matter plays more seriously, but Clooney’s textured performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. And as good as they all are, it’s Judy Greer who ends up stealing the picture with just three stunning scenes as a sympathetic spectator to the family drama. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE

(Stephen Daldry) takes some of the edge off Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a socially challenged boy trying to solve a mystery left behind by his father, who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Oskar (newcomer Thomas Horn) is now less of a clinical Asperger’s case than a well-meaning but awkward boy, and the trauma of 9/11 is treated with kid gloves (and one really ill-considered recurring image). But the core story – which follows Oskar on a quest through New York City, often accompanied by an elderly mute (a terrific Max von Sydow) – is compelling, and young Horn is an appealing hero. Director Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader) is surprisingly restrained and less patronizing than

usual, though he still does that thing where he ignores the movie’s natural ending to pound his lessons into the audience. 129 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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and entertaining buddy movie that just happens to have life-or-death stakes, based as it is on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own diagnosis with a rare spinal tumour.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is terrific, Anna Kendrick is great as his novice therapist and Seth Rogen – essentially playing himself – is rock-solid. 99 min. NNNN (NW) Regent Theatre

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(David Fincher) is another unnecessary English-language remake. It’s a still a taut thriller, and Daniel Craig, as disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who’s investigating the disappearance of the niece of wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), has more charisma than Swedish counterpart Michael Nyqvist. But when Fincher’s at the helm, you expect a little more inventiveness. While on the trail, Blomkvist clicks endlessly on his laptop, and Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), the troubled tattoed girl he enlists to assist him, busily flips through archived newspapers. Not exactly riveting. What’s missing here is mood. Where the dread-filled Swedish Tattoo deepens the tension every time Blomqvist crosses the bridge into the Vangers’ island compound, Fincher uses the bridge sequences purely to establish location. Mara gives the movie some energy, but if you’ve seen the Swedish adaptation, this one’s superfluous. 158 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(John Michael McDonagh) is showy, smart and hysterically funny, which is no mean feat for a movie about a small-town Garda sergeant (Brendan Gleeson) and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) on the trail of a drug-smuggling ring in rural Ireland. Damned if it isn’t one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW)

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In English. 113 min.

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(George Miller) continues the CGI saga of Mumble the tap-dancing penguin – voiced again by Elijah Wood – by giving him a son who doesn’t want to dance. But that becomes a secondary issue once a glacial catastrophe separates them from the rest of their Antarctic colony. It sounds crazy, and yet it all builds to a spectacular and even moving payoff. It’s incredible that a movie this objectively nuts can reach for that sort of profundity and achieve it. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

HUGO (Martin Scorsese) is the first Scor-

sese picture that doesn’t feel like a Scorsese picture. It’s set in and around a Paris train station somewhere in the late 1920s, where the eponymous urchin (Asa Butterfield) spends his days hidden within the station walls, maintaining the building’s huge clocks. When Hugo pilfers toy parts from a crotchety shop owner (Ben Kingsley), it triggers a series of discoveries which lead to... well, a heartfelt appeal for film preservation and a love song to pioneering film director Georges Méliès. That’s because Hugo isn’t really the story of an urchin in a train station; that’s just its starting point. You can feel Scorsese growing less and less interested in the emotional beats, because he’s itching to get to the set pieces, where he can resurrect the images and techniques of the early silents he so clearly loves. I don’t begrudge Scorsese for making this bauble; after decades of tireless advocacy for cinema history, it’s probably the best way to get his message out. I just don’t know whether it works as a movie. 126 min.

NNN (NW) Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood) is the latest in

Eastwood’s late-period series of stately patrician duds. Dustin Lance Black seems to be writing a Douglas Sirk melodrama playing out in the corridors of American power, but Eastwood dances around the sexually risky material without ever fully committing to it. It’s just one big missed opportunity. 135 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller) makes an entertaining if undistinguished sports movie out of Michael Lewis’s book about GM Billy Beane’s revolutionary statistics-based redesign of the 2002 Oakland As. It’s charming enough, though the midsection sags and the ending goes on about three beats longer than it should. 126 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Sandler’s latest overextended sketch. He plays both a commercial director trying to land Al Pacino for an ad and his annoying twin sister, who inexplicably attracts the actor’s eye. The irritating one-note comedy is worth watching only to see Pacino deliberately ham his way into self-parody for once. 91 min. N (Phil Brown) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

LE HAVRE (Aki Kaurismäki) is an unabashed

fairy tale in which a shoe shine operator (André Wilms) tries to help a boy (Blondin Miguel) who’s entered the country illegally via the titular port. It lacks Kaurismäki’s signature irony but has many quiet pleasures, chief among them deft performances, especially by Wilms. Subtitled. 93 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant

Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis, in performance capture), Tintin (Jamie Bell) and Snowy make a splash in The Adventures Of Tintin.

THE MAGIC FLUTE: MET OPERA HOLIDAY ENCORE is a high-def broadcast of an

abridged version of Julie Taymor’s whimsical production of the Mozart opera, sung in English and conducted by James Levine.

Jan 4, 11 am, at Coliseum Mississauga, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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(George Clooney) is a nimble adaptation of Beau Willimon’s stage play Farragut North, about the ideological deflowering of a campaign strategist (Ryan Gosling) as he ushers a hopey-changey Democratic governor (Clooney) through the Ohio presidential primary. The plot’s a Mamety mixture of betrayal, disillusionment and high-stakes brinksmanship, but it’s performed by a cast working at peak efficiency. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

IMMORTALS (Tarsem Singh) is the latest Greek mythology movie to follow 300’s lead by wallowing in carnage. Future Man of Steel Henry Cavill lets his pecs do the talking as Theseus, a peasant warrior who must protect the heavens and earth from Mickey Rourke’s would be conqueror. With characters as colourless and stiff as Greek statues, Immortals has a whole lot of torture and death, but not enough life. 111 min. NN (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus IN TIME (Andrew Niccol) posits a future where time is literally money: people stop aging when they turn 25, and they get one year of time to spend as they see fit. (When you go broke, you drop dead.) When a working-class guy (Justin Timberlake) lands in possession of an extra century, he goes on the run with a wealthy young woman (Amanda Seyfried) to beat the system. The first hour is vibrant allegorical SF; the second devolves into a lot of running and jumping, and the capitalism metaphor hits a conceptual dead end. 109 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30 INTO THE ABYSS (Werner Herzog) was buzzed at TIFF as Herzog’s capital-punishment documentary, but it’s really just an examination of a Texas triple homicide in which one perpetrator received a death sentence while another got life in prison.

Herzog structures the doc into chapters – looking at the crime, the perpetrators, the victims and the manner in which a Texas prisoner is put to death – but within those chapters, the footage has a rambling, disorganized feel. Herzog expresses his contempt for the death penalty the moment he meets condemned prisoner Michael Perry, but this isn’t a work of advocacy; it’s just a contemplation of the process leading up to an execution. 106 min. NNN (NW)

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(J.C. Chandor) frames the first 48 hours of the 2008 financial meltdown like a moral horror story, as the traders at an over-leveraged Wall Street firm debate whether they should save themselves at the expense of the global economy. Kevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant as a company lifer who sees what’s coming but is powerless to stop it. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Lars von Trier) gets under your skin, and a moody aftertaste sticks with you long after it’s over. In this atmospheric, operatic, end-of-theworld allegory, von Trier ratchets up anxiety and provides an insightful metaphor for people who, like the planets, are better left in their own space. 135 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen) casts Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in time to meet the great artists of the 20s. It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min.

NN (SGC) Regent Theatre IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL ñMISSION:

(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) in the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team racing around the eastern hemisphere to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia – a defiantly retro scheme that’s still scary, especially when half the Kremlin gets blown up in a mysterious bombing pinned on Hunt’s crew. As Cruise runs through traffic, battles umpteen villains and scales tall buildings (in spectacular IMAX footage, even), Ghost Protocol zips through its paces with a marvellous sense of craft; the action scenes are only incoherent when they need to be, the characters are sharply and simply defined, and the locations are attractively photographed and smartly used. Some subtitles.

133 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity

(James Bobin) shouldn’t work. The story is clichéd, the music isn’t great, and the focus shifts awkwardly between small-town brothers Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (a Muppet voiced by Peter Linz) and the classic characters we know and love. But somehow, once our new heroes have convinced Kermit and company to save their theatre from an evil oilman, none of that matters. Co-written and co-produced with deep, abiding love by star Segel, The Muppets recaptures the unpredictable energy and genuine magic of Jim Henson’s beloved felt creations and releases that energy back into the wild. It reminds us how much we love Kermit, Fozzie, Piggy, Animal, the Swedish Chef and all the rest, and it lets a lot of famous people – among them Feist, Emily Blunt and Neil Patrick Harris – pop up to express their own affection. No, the new songs by Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie don’t have the scale or impact of The Rainbow Connection; what could? But when Camilla the chicken covers Cee Lo, all is right with the world. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis) is

as star-struck by its subject as its narrator is. The film is based on the memoirs of Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), who served as third assistant director to Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) on the disastrous production of The Prince And The Showgirl. A gofer on set, Colin must keep tabs on the high-maintenance Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams, excellent), a task that leaves him vulnerable to her charms.

There’s a coming-of-age tale buried somewhere here, in which Colin learns to be a man at the feet of the sassiest of women.

Unfortunately, he barely registers as a character in a film that’s as easily distracted as Monroe. The film fails to come into focus on her, acknowledging the void between Monroe’s public persona and private life while doing very little to fill it. 101 min. NN (RS) Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

NEW YEAR’S EVE (Garry Marshall) is strictly by the numbers, a generic exercise in empty momentum that follows various slick hipsters, lovelorn singletons and overprotective parents around New York over the course of the eponymous holiday. There’s no wit or charm in Katherine Fugate’s schematic screenplay, and producer-director Marshall doesn’t ask anything of his cast beyond saying their lines while staying in focus. Sure, you can amuse yourself by counting the Oscars won elsewhere by the cast – Robert De Niro and Hilary Swank each have two, Halle Berry has one, Michelle Pfeiffer’s been nominated for three – but that’ll just depress you, as will the sight of Russell Peters reduced to a stereotypical sidekick. It’s all about pandering to the lowest common denominator, which also explains the blatant ads for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows and the Valentine’s Day Blu-ray and DVD that elbow their way into the final moments.

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begin – but it does capture the essence of her art through excerpts from suggestive, richly dramatic works like The Rite Of Spring and Café Müller. Director Wenders uses 3-D technology effectively, allowing the viewer to practically feel the heat emanating from the dancers’ bodies and get up close to complex configurations that defy description. The range of settings includes traditional stages as well as parks and rivers outside Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal.

The performers, interviewed in unconventional ways – we see them, but hear them on a separate track – recall Bausch with affection and intelligence. Of course, they communicate best through dance. Subtitled. 104 min. NNNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller) is an entertaining prequel for kids and adults focusing on the feline outlaw (voiced by Antonio Banderas), who teams up with his former best friend, Humpy Dumpty (a great Zach Galifianakis), to steal the goose that lays the golden eggs. Top-notch animation and voice performances compensate for some pretty sizable plot holes. 90 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre

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louder formula devised by producer Joel Silver for his Lethal Weapon and Die Hard sequels; shit constantly blows up or catches on fire, and the story rarely pauses for breath. Robert Downey Jr. is still miscast as Holmes, but it’s less bothersome than it was the first time around because we already know what we’re in for. Jude Law remains an excellent Watson, Jared Harris makes a decent Moriarty, and a delightful Stephen Fry steals the picture as Holmes’s brother, Mycroft – though that might simply be a side benefit of his appearing exclusively in scenes where nothing explodes. 129 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale ly okay comedy with a sharp story, decent acting and a zippy pace, but only scattered chuckles and a few laughs. Twentysomething layabout Noah gets roped into babysitting the kids next door (an anxietyridden 13-year-old, his princess-crazed little sister and their bomb-happy brother), then into scoring some coke for a girl. This launches him and the kids into numerous car thefts, small explosions, fights, jewellery store and bat mitzvah heists and a bit of obligatory learning and growing. 81 min.

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SURVIVING PROGRESS (Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks) adapts historian Ronald Wright’s book A Short History Of Progress to look at the ill-defined notion that all forms of human advancement are inherently positive. Wright and talking heads examine the difference between good and bad progress and the fuzzy line between them when dealing with environmental, evolutionary and economic matters. It’s an admirable film that’s bound to spark necessary and passionate discussions. 86 min.

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tures all of Almodóvar’s trademark kitsch, melodrama and recurring questions about sexual identity and voyeurism. Antonio Banderas plays a mad scientist who experiments with engineered skin on a fetching lab rat he keeps locked in his home. The jaw-dropping revelations and startling twists from tragedy to dark comedy would normally be impossible to swallow, but with Almodóvar it’s a weird and delectable dish. Subtitled. 117 min. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema

cessful New York suit (Michael Fassbender) Shotgun Stories director Nichols with who’s a slave to his sexual compulsions. star Michael Shannon for a piercing characFassbender lays himself bare in every way ter study of a husband and father who imaginable, but the forceful starts having apocalyptic visual sensibility that dreams every night. worked so well in McShannon’s wrenching Queen’s previous film, EXPANDED REVIEWS performance is the film; the abstract Hunger, nowtoronto.com he conveys the uncertain isn’t suited to the more terror of a man who’d alhuman-scale story here. most prefer to be losing his Shame’s set pieces feel like showy flourmind if it means the rest of the world keeps ishes rather than grace notes that clarify going. 121 min. NNNN (NW) and amplify the drama. Other problems are Carlton Cinema the miscasting of Carey Mulligan in a key

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(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. Director Alfredson (Let The Right One In) understands that this is largely much ado about nothing; for all their posturing and self-importance, the British are basically middlemen in the larger battle between the Americans and the Soviets. But he’s assembled a remarkable cast – Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch – and given them the challenge of never quite revealing the raging emotions hidden just behind their eyes. 127 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTOMBOY

(Céline Sciamma) is a compelling drama with great performances about a young girl who moves to a suburb outside Paris and starts passing as a boy. Despite what you’ve read elsewhere, this isn’t a lesbian coming-of-age story. It’s a trans tale – and a good one. Subtitled. 84 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (Bill Condon) picks up on the heels

of last year’s Eclipse, finding Bella and Edward embarking on their grand voyage into matrimony and finally consummating their love. Bella then gets knocked up with a parasitic monster fetus that puts her life in danger. By the batshit-crazy climax, the movie’s fully divorced from coherent emotional arcs or even conventional plotting.

And there’s one more on the way. 117 min.

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VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D ñACHRISTMAS

(Todd Strauss-Schulson) picks up six years after the last movie, putting our slowly maturing heroes on an epic search for the perfect Christmas tree. Ab-

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(Steven Spielberg) adapts Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel (which also inspired the awardwinning play) to tell a simple but affecting story set during World War One. English farm boy Albert (Jeremy Irvine) loses his horse, Joey, to the calvary. As the animal’s passed from the Germans to the French, doing whatever he can to survive, Albert leaves his parents (Emily Watson and Peter Mullan) to enlist and find him. The script, by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, allows Spielberg to touch on some of his favourite themes, like the senseless brutality of combat and the redemptive power of a non-human creature. Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski immerses the viewer in his imagery, from the pastoral glories of the English and French countryside to the steaming corpsestrewn trenches of the Somme. The result is an old-fashioned picture full of humanity and heroism that only occasionally dips into sentimentality. 146 min. NNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE WAY (Emilio Estevez) follows California

ophthalmologist (Martin Sheen) as he flies to Europe to claim the body of his dead son and ends up impulsively completing a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago.

Sheen gives a finely modulated performance, and if writer-director Estevez’s spiritual points don’t quite crystallize into drama, his film does reach a gentle catharsis. 115 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (Cameron Crowe) is a

syrupy concoction that stars Matt Damon as a thrill-seeking journalist and recent widower with a troubled emo son and a precocious little girl who seems manufactured to giggle adorably. His mourning clan leave their troubles behind and embark on a mission to rehabilitate a broken-down zoo, which the characters practically tell you is an allegory for rehabilitating themselves. From taming a depressed grizzly bear to taming an emotionally torn pubescent, the unfocused movie finds whimsical solutions to the family’s challenges, making it hard to believe it’s based on a true story.

It’s the fluffy, family-friendly alternative to The Descendants, with George Clooney’s Ocean’s 11 pal Damon mugging to make this heavy-handed dramedy work. My sympathies go out to him. 124 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñYOUNG ADULT

(Jason Reitman) gives us the ultimate mean girl in Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who’s returned to her hometown of Mercury, Minnesota, determined to snag her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson), who’s now happily married with a new baby. Scriptwriter Diablo Cody’s come up with a fascinating character, at once repulsive and appealing. She may be on the brink of failure – she’s writing the last volume of her meal-ticket young adult book series – but Mavis feels superior to everyone in Mercury. And when she’s talking trash, she’s vicious – and hilarious.

Theron inhabits the role fearlessly, trumping her Oscar-winning turn as Aileen Wuornos, and with no makeup artist to credit. Patton Oswalt is almost as good as a guy who was traumatized by a beating in high school. These deep characters are matched by some pointed social satire.

Cody and Theron are definitely courting Oscar. 94 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity 3

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE ARTIST (PG) 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 CARNAGE (14A) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 11:30, 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 HUGO 3D (PG) 12:10, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 SHAME (18A) 12:20, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Wed no 7:20 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 YOUNG ADULT (14A) 11:45, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20

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YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC)

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:05 THE DARKEST HOUR (PG) 1:55, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 THE GUARD (14A) 4:35, 9:30 J. EDGAR (PG) 1:30, 6:50 MELANCHOLIA (PG) 3:55, 9:35 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) 1:35, 7:15 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18A) 3:50, 9:25 SURVIVING PROGRESS (R) 1:50, 7:25 TAKE SHELTER 4:15, 9:45 THE WAY (14A) 1:25, 7:00 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444

CAFÉ DE FLORE (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 WAR HORSE (PG) 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10

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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 1:10, 3:40, 7:15, 9:25 Fri 11:30 late ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri 11:00 late THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 1:25 4:05 6:50 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 1:15, 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 WAR HORSE (PG) 12:55, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 11:45, 2:20, 3:30, 6:10, 7:10, 9:50, 10:50 HANSEL AND GRETEL: MET OPERA HOLIDAY ENCORE Thu 11:00 HUGO 3D (PG) 12:15, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 THE MAGIC FLUTE: MET OPERA HOLIDAY ENCORE Wed 11:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 11:40, 12:20, 2:50, 3:40, 6:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:20 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 SHAME (18A) 1:15, 4:00, 7:20, 10:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:15, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:40 THE SITTER (14A) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 WAR HORSE (PG) 11:20, 1:30, 2:40, 5:30, 6:40, 9:00, 10:30

Acting prodigy Thomas Horn (left) and the always reliable Tom Hanks get Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, at the Yonge & Dundas 24.

10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) 11:15, 11:45, 2:00, 2:30, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8:00, 10:15, 11:00 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 10:30, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) 10:35, 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 THE DARKEST HOUR 3D (PG) 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:15 THE DARKEST HOUR (PG) Thu 10:45 1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 10:00 Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 DON 2 (14A) Thu 12:15 3:45 6:45 9:15 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25, 10:30 DON 2 3D (14A) 10:30, 2:00, 5:10, 8:30 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG) Thu 10:45 11:30 12:45 1:30 2:15 3:30 4:30 5:15 6:30 7:15 8:15 9:30 10:15 11:00 Fri-Wed 10:45, 11:15, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:30, 5:15, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) 10:35, 1:05, 3:35 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) 11:20, 1:55, 4:20, 6:50 MARGIN CALL Thu 11:25 2:10 4:55 7:25 10:00 Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 MONEYBALL (PG) 6:15, 9:20 THE MUPPETS (G) 10:50, 1:25, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) Thu 12:45 3:15 5:45 8:20 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 8:20, 11:00 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 10:30 11:55 1:10 2:45 4:00 5:35 7:45 8:20 10:30 11:15 Fri-Wed 10:30, 11:55, 1:10, 2:45, 4:00, 5:35, 7:45, 8:20, 10:30, 11:00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 10:30 11:15 1:15 2:15 4:15 5:15 7:15 8:15 10:15 11:15 Fri-Wed 10:30, 11:15, 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:10, 10:15, 11:00 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 10:05 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 10:35, 11:45, 1:30, 2:45, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) 1:00, 3:45 HUGO (PG) 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) 7:00, 9:20 THE MUPPETS (G) 1:10, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 THE SITTER (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:30 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 YOUNG ADULT (14A) 2:10, 4:35, 7:40, 9:55

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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) 11:40, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 11:50, 2:05, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20 THE DARKEST HOUR 3D (PG) 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 11:30, 3:10, 6:50, 10:30 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) 12:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 12:20, 3:40, 6:45, 10:10 Tue only 12:20 3:40 6:45 10:05 WAR HORSE (PG) 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 11:50, 12:50, 2:05, 3:10, 4:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Thu, Wed no 12:50 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00 THE ARTIST (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 THE DARKEST HOUR 3D (PG) 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8:05, 10:55 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu 12:20 3:55 6:45 7:30 10:15 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:55, 6:45, 7:30, 10:15, 10:55 HANSEL AND GRETEL: MET OPERA HOLIDAY ENCORE Thu 11:00 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) 1:10 HUGO 3D (PG) 12:00, 3:20, 6:40 THE MAGIC FLUTE: MET OPERA HOLIDAY ENCORE Wed 11:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 1:20, 3:50, 4:40, 7:05, 7:50, 10:15, 11:00 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 11:10, 1:55, 4:50 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:00 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 10:05 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 12:30, 3:35, 6:55, 7:45, 10:00, 10:50 THE SITTER (14A) 9:55 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 10:40 WAR HORSE (PG) 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 1:00, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 YOUNG ADULT (14A) 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:50

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1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 1:00, 3:40, 7:00 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 Sat 12:45, 2:55, 4:55, 7:05 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) 12:40, 2:50, 4:50 THE DARKEST HOUR (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:10 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu-Fri, SunWed 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 1:05, 4:05, 6:55 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:30 Sat 6:50 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 6:45 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 1:15, 3:55, 6:50

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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 12:20, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50

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INTO THE ABYSS (PG) Thu 9:00 MELANCHOLIA (PG) Thu 8:15 Fri-Wed 5:00, 8:15 PINA (G) 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 8:45 Thu 2:45 mat, 5:30 TOMBOY (PG) Thu 6:45 YOUNG ADULT (14A) 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45

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only 1:00 3:30 6:00 8:20 The Girl WiTh The DraGon TaTToo (18A) 1:10, 2:30, 4:40, 6:20, 8:30, 9:50 Sat only 1:10 2:30 4:40 6:10 8:10 9:30 happy FeeT TWo (PG) 1:50 MarGin Call 6:40, 9:10 The MuppeTs (G) 12:30, 3:10 sherloCk holMes: a GaMe oF shaDoWs (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 1:20, 4:00, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00 The siTTer (14A) 6:30, 9:00 Sat only 6:30 8:40 The TWiliGhT saGa: BreakinG DaWn parT 1 (PG) 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40

alvin anD The ChipMunks: ChipWreCkeD (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 11:40, 1:50, 4:00, 6:20, 8:35, 10:50 Sat 11:40, 1:50, 4:00, 6:20, 8:35 arThur ChrisTMas (G) 11:40, 2:00, 4:20 The DarkesT hour 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sat only 1:00 3:20 6:00 8:20 10:30 The Girl WiTh The DraGon TaTToo (18A) 11:50, 3:10, 6:40, 10:10 Sat only 11:50 3:10 6:40 10:00 happy FeeT TWo (PG) 12:35, 3:50 Mission: iMpossiBle – GhosT proToCol (PG) 12:05, 1:10, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:40 Sat only 12:05 1:10 3:30 4:30 6:30 7:30 9:30 10:30 neW year’s eve (PG) 6:50, 9:45 Sat only 6:50 9:40 sherloCk holMes: a GaMe oF shaDoWs (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:55, 10:50 Sat only 1:40 4:40 7:00 7:40 9:50 10:25 War horse (PG) 12:50, 4:15, 7:20, 10:35 Sat only 12:50 4:15 7:20 10:20 We BouGhT a Zoo (PG) 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sat only 1:20 4:10 7:10 10:10

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Nothing Sacred (Kino, 1937) D: William Wellman, w/ Carole Lombard, Fredric March. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: NN

The first half of screwball comedy Nothing Sacred crackles with snappy dialogue and absurd situations handled with razor-sharp comic timing.

The pace slows a little in the second half when the cast gets busy with the plot and obligatory romance, but at a 73-minute running time, it hardly drags.

Fredric March plays a disgraced reporter who finds a smalltown girl (Carole Lombard) dying of radium poisoning and decides she’ll make swell sobstory headlines in New York.

The city responds with spectacularly awful displays of public sentiment.

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Midnight In Paris

(Sony, 2011) D: Woody Allen, w/ Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NN

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limbed airy enthusiasm.

The HD transfer comes from a print, not an original negative, so it’s adequate but not perfect. The trio of trailers that accompany the movie – for A Star Is Born, Pandora And The Flying Dutchman and Nothing Sacred – are nothing special.

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This is largely an excuse for Allen to indulge his love of warm, postcard visuals and poke gentle fun at the luminaries of that particular time and place, which is mildly amusing if you’re familiar with them, not so much if you’re not.

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In the extras’ too-few minutes of press conference footage, writer/director Woody Allen explains that he began with the location and title, but no script. This may explain the horrible moment at the end when our hero explains the perfectly obvious theme to his beloved when they should be having a seriously poignant moment.

The ending aside, Midnight In Paris is pleasant Allen fluff that has a contemporary American in Paris magically whisked back to the 1920s so he can party with the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Salvador Dali and fall in love with a beautiful model.

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Kung fu meets the inspirational jock movie, but they don’t really get along. That’s odd, because both genres love their training sequences.

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both genres: good kung fu school versus bad one, friends become rivals and rivals friends, underfunded athletes raise funds with street performance, a kung fu boy (Dicky Cheung) loves a sprinter girl (Priscilla Wong), and everyone spouts uplifting oration.

On the jock movie side, only the energetic crowd scenes work well.

Editing is haphazard and scenes drag on. The racing girls and period recreation are thoroughly unconvincing.

In kung fu territory, a local gangster and a pawned baby trigger a lively string of battles that escalate to a massive brawl. Director Tsui Siu-Ming shoots this with a mix of Shaw Brothers old-school style and wire work to make sure we get a good look at Mantis, Eagle Claw and Tai Ji styles.

The 15 minutes of making-of footage and interviews, needlessly broken into two-minute segments, tell us that Tsui knows martial arts and star Cheung doesn’t, though he’s good at wire stunts.

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(Phase 4, 2011) D: Uwe Boll, w/ Dolph Lundgren, Lochlyn Munro. Rating: N; DVD package: NNNN

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Uwe Boll strikes again. Some call him the worst director in the world. Personally, I see him as Germany’s answer to Troma films. Either way, he’s fun when he’s free to indulge his lust for bare breasts and gross humour – Postal and Bloodrayne: The Third Reich come to mind – and dull when he tries to play it straight. Here he does the latter.

As a present-day karate instructor who’s mystically yanked into the Middle Ages to save the guys in the castle from the ones in the forest, Dolph Lundgren seems like an actor who’s got the flu but came to work anyway. He’s conspicuously underused in the lacklustre action scenes.

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Except for Lochlyn Munro, perpetually on the verge of cracking up as the castle’s king, the cast is as wooden as the dialogue.

However tedious the movie, Boll delivers a stellar commentary. He whips through the production stories, a comparison of shooting on video versus film and the value of actors like Lundgren in half an hour. Then he launches into an analysis of the current dismal state of business for independent filmmakers that segues into a rant about the current crop of play-it-safe actors and wretched tent-pole movies. Now, that’s entertainment.

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thu 29 – Antz (1998) D: Eric Darnell and Tim

ST VINCENT Annie Clark wowed the crowd at the Phoenix in what could be the best Toronto show of the year. 2:22

Johnson. 2 pm. The Country Girl (1954) D: George Seaton. 5 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) D: Stanley Kubrick. 8 pm.

Ffri 30 – Sing-Along Special: The Sound Of Music (1965) D: Robert Wise. Noon & 7 pm. sat 31 – Ghostbusters (1984) D: Ivan Reitman. 2 pm. To Catch A Thief (1955) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 5 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 8 pm. suN 1 – The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) D: Frank Oz. 2 pm. High Society (1956) D: Charles Walters. 5 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 8 pm. moN 2 – Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. 2 pm. High Noon (1952) D: Fred Zinnemann. 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 8 pm. tue 3 – The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) D: Peter Jackson. 2 pm. Rear Window (1954) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 6:30 pm. 2001: A Space Odysssey. 8 pm. wed 4 – The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) D: Peter Jackson. 2 pm. Hot Docs Doc Soup presents An African Election (2011) D: Jarreth Merz. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. hotdocs.ca. To Catch A Thief. 6:30 pm.

2001: A Space Odysssey. 8 pm.

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thu 29-fri 30 – Puss In Boots (2011) D: Chris

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Ides Of March. 7 pm. suN 1 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. Ides Of March. 4 & 7 pm. Like Crazy. 9:15 pm. moN 20-tue 3 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. Ides Of March. 4 & 9 pm. Like Crazy. 7 pm. wed 4 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. Real Steel (2011) D: Shawn Levy. 4 pm. J. Edgar (2011) D: Clint Eastwood. 6:45 pm. Ides Of March.

9:30 pm.

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An African Election delivers suspense, even though the end is a matter of record.

AN AFRICAN ELECTION

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An African Election takes about 45 minutes to hit its stride, when it becomes political drama at its most compelling.

January’s Doc Soup selection, Jarreth Merz’s fly-on-the-wall documentary follows the chaotic election cycle in Ghana, a small

West African country not known for peaceful transitions of political power. (Having declared its independence from Britain in 1957, Ghana spent decades weathering military coups until it achieved relative stability in the 90s.)

In 2008, when National Democratic Congress leader John Atta Mills challenged John Kufuor’s reigning New Patriotic Party, the country had a chance to serve as “an example to

Africa and the world” – a phrase repeated numerous times by various figures in Merz’s documentary, all of them obviously putting the best face on the situation.

In the doc’s first half, Merz shows us a country trying to move forward with optimism and the best of intentions: Kufuor and Atta Mills conduct clean campaigns while newscasts hint ominously at the danger of civil war should the election go badly.

And on election day, when the race proves too close to call, the country does seem to be balanced on the brink of chaos. This launches the movie’s riveting second act, a breakneck political thriller in which the stakes are nothing less than the stability of a nation. Once accusations of election-tampering and ballot box theft start flying, the casual paranoia of the average citizen suddenly seems unnervingly pragmatic.

Merz cuts it all together expertly, covering the situations he couldn’t capture himself with news reports and remote footage.

He’s telling a story whose ending is a matter of record, but he still manages to make it suspenseful.

Screens Wednesday (January 4) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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Fthu 29-fri 30 – The Mediatheque On Ice! Holiday screenings. 2 pm. Free. suN 1 – Closed.

FmoN 2-wed 4 – The Mediatheque On Ice!

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Reg haRtt’s CinefORum 463 BathuRst. 416-603-6643.

thu 29 – Charlie Chaplin Festival. A different film each night. 7 pm.

sat 31-wed 4 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu

(1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 7 pm. suN 1 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003).

5 pm.

(2004) D: Robert Zemeckis. 2 pm. sat 31-wed 4 – Closed.

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4 & 7 pm. J Edgar. 9:15 pm. sat 31 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. J Edgar. 4 pm.

Ides Of March. 7 pm. suN 1 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. Ides Of March. 4 & 7 pm. J Edgar. 9:15 pm. moN 2-tue 3 – Puss In Boots. 2 pm. Ides Of March. 4 & 9:30 pm. J. Edgar (2011) D: Clint Eastwood. 6:45 pm.

the ROYaL thu 29 – Puss In Boots (2011) D: Chris Mil-

ler. 4:30 pm. Moneyball (2011) D: Bennett Miller. 6:30 pm. Drive (2011) D: Nicholas Winding Refn. 9:15 pm. fri 30– Puss In Boots. 4:30 pm. The Ides Of March (2011) D: George Clooney. 7 pm. Immortals (2011) D: Tarsem Singh. 9:15 pm. sat 31-suN 1 – Closed. moN 2-tue 3 – Life Of Brian (1979) D: Terry Jones. 7 pm. Free. The Ides Of March. 9 pm. wed 4 – The Ides Of March. 7 pm. Immortals. 9:15 pm.

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Jim Sharman. 11:59 pm. sat 31-wed 4 – Check website for schedule.

OtheR fiLms thu 29-wed 4 – The CN Tower presents The

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I am a 25-year-old gay man. I consIder myself very gay-positive and self-accepting. Although I have always accepted my homosexuality and never really felt bad about it, recently I’ve been going through a hard time psychologically because I’m exposing myself to very graphic homophobic online content. There are blogs, online groups and websites that cater to gay men who like to be abused and degraded by “straight” men. These websites have content that is extremely degrading. Some people write extensively about how all gay rights should be rolled back.

I am very disturbed because I am actually aroused by content that shows supposedly straight men degrading gay men. I have spent hours reading these homophobic posts and staring at graphic homophobic pictures, and I always come away feeling disturbed, insecure and unhappy. But when I’m horny, I go right back. The worst feeling comes from knowing that a lot of those people don’t seem to recognize it as just a fantasy, but instead believe in the homophobic views they express.

I was never disturbed by BDSM-type fantasies or BDSM porn, as it never seemed to be related to homophobia at all. But this type of dom/sub thing is very disturbing, as people don’t seem to be “just playing” and it is playing with a real-world violent and powerful hate ideology. Is it okay for me to view this as just another harmless fantasy or is it something I need to control or get help dealing with? Secondly, are the people

who contribute, participate in and produce such gay-bashing sexualized content just indulging in a version of acceptable BDSM/kink or is it dangerous to use a prevalent hate ideology in sex play?

Not An Inferior Faggot P.S. Examples of these websites: faggot4ever.tumblr.com, obeythestraightman.tumblr.com and tribes.tribe. net/qssm.

You’re not inferior, NAIF, and you’re not alone.

In fact, you have lots of horny soulmates out there – think of strong feminist women with rape fantasies, think of faithful Jews with Nazi fetishes, think of empowered African Americans who get off on Master/slave role-play scenes. And think of all the gay men out there turned on by those vaguely threatening male archetypes. I mean, come on: all those cliché gay male sex symbols – truckers, skinheads, marines, cops, firemen, gangbangers – don’t exactly represent the kinds of people or professions that have historically been associated with tolerance.

A person can safely explore degrading fantasies – even fantasies rooted in “hate ideology” – so long as he/she is capable of compartmentalizing this stuff.

Basically, you have to build a firewall between your fantasies and your self-esteem. (And, just as importantly, between your fantasies and your politics.) Once you do that, NAIF, you’ll be able to enjoy your “straight men abusing fags” fantasies without feeling devastated immedi-

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ately after you come. In fact, successfully building that firewall and then enjoying your fantasies without shame can leave you feeling stronger and more empowered for having these fantasies in the first place. Call it the sub’s paradox: A D/s sub who can enjoy his fantasies without being shredded by them is in control, not being controlled – regardless of how things might appear to a casual or misinformed observer.

But it doesn’t sound like you’ve been able to build that firewall yet, NAIF, due to feelings of shame rooted in a perceived disconnect between the person you know yourself to be – a proud gay man – and the scenarios that make your dick hard. But there is no disconnect, NAIF. You don’t really hate yourself any more than the feminist with rape fantasies really wants to be raped or the Jewish guy with Nazi fantasies really believes that Germans are the master race.

(Could a people who routinely wear sandals with socks be the master race?

No, they could not.) It might help if you reminded yourself of that before, during and after you rub one out – and it also might help if a sex-positive counsellor reminded you of that during some regular sessions over a period of months.

You know what else might help? Finding a nice, out, proud gay man who gets off on this shit, too, NAIF, a guy who wants to explore these degradation fantasies with you in real time – safely, respectfully and consensually. Cuddling after a hot, crazy, kinky D/s sex session with

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the “straight” guy who five minutes ago was “degrading” you for being a “worthless faggot” – and then getting dressed and going out to grab some froyo and chat about Glee – would go a long way toward helping you see your fantasies as something that brought intimacy, companionship and connection into your life instead of self-loathing and self-recrimination.

But don’t start exploring your fantasies with a boyfriend until that firewall is well under construction, NAIF, okay?

Three monThs ago, I sTarTed a fuck-

buddy relationship with an old friend. As we are both not seeking a serious romance, I thought it would be a good idea. My assumption was that the relationship was “open.” But when I asked him how he’d feel about my dating another guy, he got defensive and said that if I fucked other guys, he would “never” sleep with me again. I asked him if he was sleeping with other girls, and he said no. I don’t know whether to be happy (he likes me enough to be monogamous) or freaked (at his leotarded communication style). I do have feelings for him, and the sex is progressing from good to great. Any advice would be helpful.

Confused Canadian Chick I would advise you to have a convo about upgrading your frequent-fucker cards from fuck-buds silver to boyfriend/girlfriend gold. The latter designation gets closer to the facts on the ground: you have feelings for him, he has feelings for you (however poorly articulated), the sex is great, the relationship is exclusive. You two may not have been seeking romance, CCC, but it looks like romance found you.

I’m a sTraIghT male In a commITTed

live-in relationship. My girlfriend and I have sex once a week, usually on Saturday mornings. During the week, she is either too tired or too full after dinner.

She often says she wants to have sex, but come 9:30 pm she’s ready to get in bed and watch TV until she falls asleep.

She asks me on a daily basis if I’ve masturbated in her absence. If I say no, she accuses me of lying. She has demanded to smell my hands to see if she can smell lube on them. I resent feeling interrogated and guilt-tripped over this. When I do masturbate, I always clean up after myself and I’m doing it before she gets home or after she’s gone to bed. So again, why the guilt?

Browbeating Okay, Meat Beating Another Story Totally I don’t know who’s crazier, your controlling, psychotic, hand-sniffing girlfriend, BOMBAST, or you, for sticking around and putting up with this bullshit. There’s nothing wrong with having a low libido; it’s not a crime to want sex only once a week. But terrorizing a higher-libido partner about whether or not he’s making ends meet by masturbating now and then – and demanding to smell his hands! – is borderline abusive behaviour.

DTMFA, BOMBAST, and be so kind as to pass this bit of advice on to your soon-tobe ex-girlfriend: If you want a companion animal you can castrate, lady, get a dog. Not a boyfriend, not a husband. A dog.

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